316 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



-alpka, the combination of the suffixes -ula and the iterative -pka. 

 This suffix appears in connection with the terms of relationship, and then 

 signifies to call somebody /«//«er, sister, etc., or to call the father, sister, etc., hy 

 his or her name: p'tfshal'pka, ti'ipakslinlpka. Usually -al- in -alpka is not 

 emphasized, and the verbs are all transitives. 



p'tfshalpka, Mod. t'shishalpka, to call somebody father. 



pdyalpka to call somebody daughter ; cf. peyala to hear a daughter. 



pshdyalpka, to call somebody uncle. 



pshakalpka to call a person maternal aunt. 



pkumalpka to call a person paternal grandmother. 



vunakalpka to call somebody son, child; cf. viinakala to hear a son. 



-alpkasll, see -altko. 



-alslia, -altcha, verbal suffix produced by combination of the suffixes 

 -ala, -sh and -a, q. v. Like the verbs in -sha the large majority of the 

 verbs in -alsha are transitive ; they are formed from the verbal in -sh, which 

 I call the verbal indefinite, by the addition of the declarative and verbifying 

 suffix -a. The derivation is as follows: wokash jwnd lily seed ; woksrda to 

 gather pond-lily seed ; wokaslialsh, contr. wuksalsh, the act of gathering pond- 

 lily seed ; woksalsha to he in the act of gathering pMd-lily seed, to gather that 

 seed /or a time. The verbal in -sh represents the act or state expressed by 

 its verb as a lasting one, and therefore easily assumes the function of a sub- 

 stantive. Several of the verbs in -alsha possess another form in -altcha, 

 which I regard as a phonetic corruption. The verbs in -alsha have the 

 accent upon the word-stem or at least before the ending, and many of them 

 refer to the hunts of game or to the annual gathering of crops, without 

 being real usitative verbs for all that. Hiitkalsha to rise up suddenly, is an 

 example of an intransitive verb having this suffix ; another is : tchala'lsha 

 (for tchiala-rilsha) to stay at home. 



slu'itualsha to throw at each repeatedly ; from shu-uta. 

 shakalsha to play the four-stick game ; from shak'la. 

 plaiwashalsha and plai'washaltcha to he on a hald-eagle hunt. 

 washlalsha to he on a cliipmunh hunt; from washlala. 

 stupalsha to peel off the fiher-hark or stopalsh. 



