230 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



(b) Before vowels consonants are elided in the following terms: 

 nte-isli hoiv tvifJi arrows, for ntewish. 

 husliutanka to approach on the sly, for liusli'lu'itanka. 

 samenakia to wish for oneself, for sli'liamCnakia. 

 sakuasli fish-gig, spear, for slitchakuasli. 

 miultch large, tall (obj. case), for miinlsli. 



7. Elision of a syUaUe, accented or unaccented. Ex.: 



pii'patchle to step down from, 112, 6. 'J, for i)epatcli61e. 

 kshulo'tcli mowing scythe, for kshnlotkish. 

 slialallisli Fan^s flute, jewsharp, for slialalalisli. 

 liiinkimsliani theirs, abbr. from hunkelamsliaui. 

 wcwansliasli, wcwansli ivomen, for wewanuisliasli. 

 nK'ssiini in the season of trout, for meliiasliii'nii. 

 nakanti everywhere, for nAnukanti. 

 vulkiishti horroived 189; 4, for vu];^;'ipkasliti ur -tat. 

 Cf. also puksla, wo'ksla with tlieir longer forms, and stclapk.sh 87, 13, 

 for stela})kishash. 



8. Aphaeresis, or the retrenchment of an initial sound. Ex.: 



kdp. Mod. for tkap stalk of plant; dim. kapka, Kl. for tka[)aga. 



ndii'i, j\Iod. for tmii Kl., grouse. 



'mutchaga little old man, 'nuitchcwatko old, for k'mutchaga, k'mutche- 



watko. 

 'mbute'^e, for liindjute';^e to jump over something. 

 '-6ke, -olkoli, -o'sh, Mod. forms for koke river, kolkoli roin/d, ko'sli 2>i>'<^- 



free This apha^-esis before the lingual k, which substitutes -, is 



heard in the Modoc dialect only, 

 uk, unk, pron. that, and adv., for Inlk, hunk; cf hii'ksht and o'ksht. 



9. Apocope of somids. — Nothing is more frequent than the retrenchment of 



single sounds at the end of words; the quality of the initial syl- 

 lable of the word following is sometimes the cause of this, though 

 more fretpiently it is brought about by the location of tlie accent 

 upon a distant syllable : 



shitk, sitk alike to, for shitko, sitko. 



tchi'shtal towards home, for tchl'shtala. 



