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pdlui down, down in, further away ; cf. tupelui. 

 pl4-i tip, high up, above, on high. 



5. The verbal suffix -i in some instances alternates with -e, q. v., forms 

 transitive and intransitive verbs from otlier verbs, and also occurs in several 

 compound suffixes, as -Igi, -61i (-iili, -ole), -peli (-p'li)? -ui (-wi), etc. We 

 have to distinguish between — 



(a) The -i equivalent to -hi, as in guli etc.; cf -hi. 



(6) The -i as an abbreviation of -ya, -fya, as in gelkai for gelkaya, nd-i 

 for n^ya, shui for shuya; cf -aya, -ya. 



(t) The suffix -i used with reference to an act or status of the human 

 or animal body. Examples: 



aishi to secrete ; refl. sha-ishi to keep as a secret. 



tiwisi to digest food. 



kafli to gird oneself. 



kuatchilki to bite in the hair. 



pui to cut in fringes, to fringe. 



tchuli and tchulia to put a shirt on. 



A few verbs are inflected simultaneously in -a and in -i, there being a 

 shade of difference in the signification of the two: hinua to fall upon some- 

 thing, hinui to fall on the ground, soil; g^l^alka and gt'l^algi, vulina and vulini, 

 p^ksha and pt^kshi, q. v. 



Other verbs change their -a to -i in some of the verbals, as nuta to hum, 

 nutl'sh the burning, nuti'sht having been burnt; ma'sha to be sick, etc. 



-i'a, -iyci, a verbal suffix not to be confounded with -ia, because always 

 accentuated upon the -i-, which is the particle i used in a personal sense: 

 for somebody, or in the interest of somebody. It is confined to transitive verbs 

 only, and alternates with -^a only when that suffix is appended exception- 

 ally to transitive verbs. The "somebody" or indirect object pointed at by 

 -i- is not always made mention of in the sentence in which the verb is used. 



elktchnia to lay down for somebody on one's way ; cf elktcha. 

 kinshipkia to beckon somebody to come; kinshi'pka to point at. 

 nutuyakia to throw for and toward somebody. 



