294 GRAMMAR OP THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



or invisible, as sickness wafted tlirough the air; to words, songs, and noises 

 traveling through the air. 



na'g, Kl. ne'g, pi. ne'gsha who is absent^ departed. 



nen, particle referring to spoken words, sounds, noises. 



ne'pka ku-i it is bad iveather ; ne'pka (shilalsh) to bring sickness. 



ndshakweta to hang, drop doivn, as curtains. 



ne-iipka to run into a lake, said of rivers. ~ 



nt^wa to form an extension, sheet. 



niwa to drive on level ground or into tvater. 



(c) nil- is prefixed to terms relating to motion in sky or air, as the flight 

 of meteors, the throwing of stones, the swinging of round and bulky objects, 

 the humming noise made by bulky insects. 



nuyamna to hum, to make noise all about. 

 nulakiiila to cut out a hole in the ice to spear fish, 

 nulidsha to be wafted downward. 

 nut6dshna to hurl, throw away. 

 nutuyamna to fly around. 

 nuwal^a to take an aerial flight. 



• P~' pi'oprietary prefix indicating inalienable, intransferable ownership 

 of an object. In the same function, but more frequently, p occurs as a 

 suffix, q. V , and is identical with the p in the personal pronoun of the third 

 person : pi, pish, pash, push, p'na, pat, etc. The prefix p- is found, accom- 

 panied with the suffix -p, chiefly in terms of relationship derived from con- 

 sanguinity as well as from marriage, and occurs as such also in Sahaptin 

 and Wayiletpu dialects. In Klamath there are but feiv terms of relation- 

 ship which do not exhibit this prefix : makokap, tupakship, t'shishap (Mod.), 

 viinak. 



ptishap father, Kl., from t'shin to grow up. 



pgishap mother, from gi in the sense of to make, produce. 



p(i-ip daughter; ptutap daughter-in-law. 



pa-alamip husband's sister and brother's wife. 



pshaship step-mother ; step-children. 



pkatchip yewaZe cousin and her daughter. 



