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kitfhka, kitchga small fin, from kidsliash fin. 

 shupluga little play-hall, from shupluasli ball. 



A few diminutives accentuate the penultima, though they may empha- 

 size one of the sylhxbles preceding it as well : 



leledshiaga and leledshiak ver// young cub, pupj^y. 

 nepaga and nepaga, nepag little hand, paw. 



nushaltkaga and nushaltkaga headwaters of river, from nushtlltko spring- 

 ing from. 



The diminutive Shastiaga, Shastika, Sastiak, signifies a little person 

 of the Shasti tribe or a half-Shasti, one of the parents being a non-Shasti. 



Diminutives in which the ending -figa occurs twice are the pronouns 

 hiiktakaga (from lu'iktak) and viinakaga, iinakak little son or offspring, from 

 vunak. 



2. Among the pronouns and pronominal adjectives susceptible of this 

 ending we mention : 



huktag and hiiktakaga this little one. 

 ntikag the little absent one, from n^g absent. 

 tankak a few only, from tAnk so many, so much. 

 tumiaga ye^t', not many, from tumi many. 



Adverbs often assume this syllable, but then ak is no longer to be con- 

 sidered as a suffix, exce|)t perhaps in ma'ntchaga a ivhile ago; it is the par- 

 ticle ak, ak a, just only, and the transitory stage from this signification to 

 that of a diminutive is often plainly perceptible. Examples: kiutak, lapiak, 

 n^nak, panak, nishta'k, palak (Mod. pdlak), palakak, psinak, tina'k, tchussak, 

 wiga-ak. 



The adjectives k^liak deprived of, p^niak undressed, also contain this 

 suffixed particle. 



-ilg'a. The verbal suffixes -aga and -aga, although of similar origin, 

 have to be distinguished from each other. The first contains the factitive 

 suffix -ka, -ga appended to verbal stems ending in short, unaccented -a, 

 while in the latter suffix, -aga, this same factitive terminal is appended to 



