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-asll. This nominal suffix is the result of a contraction eitlier of -d-ash 

 or of ;i-ish: 



(a) Contracted from -4-ash, and therefore pointing to some object of 

 the inanimate class; cf. -ash: 



stina'sh willow-lodge ; Mod. lodge, from stina-a. 

 pdlash, palaash_/?OMr; from pala. 



(h) Contracted from -4-ish, and therefore pointing to a nomen adoris: 

 sheshtalkash tvag, funny fellow. 

 ulaktchnash one whose head is not flattened. 



-atcll, a nominal suffix which is a corruption of -6tkish, the instru- 

 mental suffix, as in — 



shumaluatch, from shumaluotkish implement for ivriting, painting or 



drawing; from shumalua. 

 lemdtch mealing-stone, prob. for lam6tkish. 



-a, see -6. 

 -ag"a see -^ga. 

 -Mzi, see -^i^a. 

 -am, see -m. 

 -bli, see -p6li. 

 -dsh, see -tch. 

 -dsha, see -tcha. 

 -dshlia, see -tchna. 



-e. The terminal -e occurring in verbs is but a part of a suffix, as -t^e, 

 -ue, and in every instance alternates with -i; therefore it does not require to 

 be treated separately. Verbs belonging here are hiilhe, gayue, gut^e, skuyite. 



Of the substantives in -e some are derived from verbs. In a few the 

 ending also alternates with i, as in tchekele blood, toke horn, litke evening, 

 kn(i-udshe coarse bark of tree. In others -e alternates with -e and -a: 



kawe eel, lamprey-eel ; poss. case, kawam. 



