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hid; d. hlAlila, Idla to slojpe downwards, ^d d. lala'la. The original mean- 

 ing of hid (see Dictionary) must have been that of putting or 

 placing on the flank of, to the side of, or intr. to be on the slope, flank 

 Cf. hla-a, Idl'Iaks. 



tfna once, d. titna some time, 2d d. titatna a few times. 



sh^talkash one who stands on his head, d. shdshtalkash; 2d d. sheshdshtal- 

 hash funny fellow, wag. 



dl^a to lay down, e-al;{a, a'-al;ja to read, d. a-a'-al;fa. 



upi^ga to stveep, vuhupi^ga to stir up, said of winds; d. vuhuhapidga 



shina, d. shishna to enter the flesh, 2d d. shishdshna. 



The difference between the two distributive forms as to signification 

 follows from the nature itself of these forms; shiukish is one who is or has 

 been a fighter on one occasion, shish6kish, on several occasions, or a habitual 

 fighter, shish'sh6kish one who fought many times or habitually on many occa- 

 sions. Instances like these show that the language has the power of form- 

 ing two (or perhaps more) distributive forms, one from the other, for every 

 tei'm in the language, as it is done in Flathead-Selish. But experience 

 shows that the second form occurs but in a few instances in the spoken 

 language, and that wherever it could be formed it often becomes phoneti- 

 cally unwieldy, and is therefore replaced by some adjective, numeral, or 

 jjronoun; cf. shesh^lkosh spectacles, pi. tumi sheshdlkosh. This is not a dis- 

 tributive but simply a plural form Cf also shushatish, shushutdnkish. 



There is a limited number of terms which reduplicate distributively 

 only after the prefix, and therefore have to be considered as compound 

 terms: 



hiapat^oksh stocking, d. hiapaipat;{oksh. 



humasht thus, so, d. humdmasht, Kl. 



naishlakgish beetle-species, d. naishlashldkgish. 



shekdktcha to return blotvs ; a term which is a d. form by itself, and 

 assumed the above form instead of sheshkdtcha to avoid being 

 confounded with sheshkdtcha, d. of shekatcha to become divorced. 



u'hlutua to let reach the feet, d. ii'hlulatua. 



