320 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATU LANGUAGE. 



combine therewith the idea of being unseen by him. They are transitive 

 as well as intransitive verbs. Not to be confounded with the suffix -tampka. 

 Cf. -apka. 



hutauipka (for hutanapka) to run into distance; der. huta to rush upon. 

 ne-ulakt;'inipka to punish tvithout heimf present ; ne-ulakta to punish. 

 tinshampka to run awny unseen by the speaker; tinshna to run away. 

 ga_ya-idshanipka to pass in front of into distance. 

 shualalianipka to administer, provide for. ' 

 steyak'kanipka to listen outside of a lodge, building, 

 shnuitampka to keep up afire away from people; cf niitii to hum. 



-tmlvll, -dnka is a frequent suffix, composed of -ank, the ending of the 

 present participle, and tlie a of the declarative mode. Thus it verbifies the 

 act or state expressed by the participle, and expresses its duration. This 

 may best appear fi-om the following instances: 



k(Skaid<a to masticate; der. koka to bite. 



hushkauka to reflect, think over ; hushka to think. 



shnikanuanka to make pauses in yatherimj crops; shnfkanua to let ripen. 



ndewanka to fall when sitting or standing ; ndcwa to topple over. 



stillit;'inka to report, bring news; stilta to announce. 



shakpat'tanka to compress or pin together. 



shuli'tanka to move an object down and up. 



spi'ikanka to move the feet quickly; spuka to pid out the feet. 



spiinkanka to take as one^s companion; spiinka to let go. 



-Iinsha. Like the verbs in -alsha, -ampka, -anka, -antko, etc., those 

 in -anslia are the result of a verbifying process to which an inflectional form 

 is subjected. Here the verbal indefinite in -sh of verbs ending in -na, -ana, 

 -6na becomes verbified by the apposition of -a, and -ansha conveys the idea 

 of locomotion away from somebody or something, of starting out into distance, 

 and sometimes that oi passing through or out of The word-accent sometimes 

 passes upon the suffix itself (-dnsha), and -ansha is preferable to the form 

 -antcha, -andsha, which is sometimes used instead of it. Gckansha to start 

 from is therefore derived from geknash the act of starting from, this from 

 gckna. Geknash, by becoming lengthened into geknasha, inverts n and a 



