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beginning with the same groups of consonants reduphcate in other ways. 

 Cf. List of Prefixes. 



kmutchcitko old, decrepit, d. kuk'mtchdtko. 



ktdna to sleep, d. kdkta and ktdkta. 



p'l^ntant on the top of, d. pepl^ntant. 



tl6%o, tel6%o brain, d. t6tl%o. 



tmoyiiga to begin, d. tot'mydga. 



tm6kil green lizard, d. t6t'mkil. 



tm61o, temolo, tom61o wild plum, d. tot'mlo. 



tchgu'mla, shgu'mla to form \oarfrost, d. tchutchgamla, shgushgdmla. 



tchm6ya to taste sour, d. tchotchm6ya. 



tchl6;(atko smooth, d. tchutchl6;{atko. 



7. Reduplication with apocope of suffix. 



In a Hmited number of terms the suffixes -na and -a after vowels are 

 dropped in their distributive forms. The cause of this is the tendency of 

 pronouncing words as short as possible and hence of dropping unaccented 

 -final vowels and syllables. 



a. Verbs in -na, when this suffix is not abbreviated from -6na, -ina, as 

 in gasaktchna to follow, usually drop the -na; the suffixes -mna, -pna, being 

 contractions from -m6na, -p6na, do not lose the -na in the duplicating 

 process. 



g^na to go away, d. g/ika, for g^ka, g^gga. 



ksh^na to carry on the arms, d. ksh^ksha, for kshdkshana. 



kt4na to sleep, d. ktAkta atid k4kta. 



l^na to move in a circle, d. l^la. 



pdna to dive, plunge, d. pdpa. 



To these may be added the verbs in -n, which drop the -n (originally 

 -na) even in the absolute form: pdn to eat, pdt, pdtko; shlfn to shoot, shla't, 

 shli'tko, etc. Cf. Verbal inflection. 



h. Verbs in -a preceded by a vowel. 



m^wa to camp out, d. m^mu, me'mii; cf mdwa to mew, d. memuwa. 



ndya, n^-i to hand over, d. nc^ni. 



shlda to see, find, d. shldshla. 

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