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-k, "Z, -.9 Whenever gutturals appear as final sounds of a word, this 

 is very often due to the dropping of a Vowel-sound at the end of the word 

 or to the transposition of sound within the final syllable. The various in- 

 stances where gutturals figure as final sounds may be classified as follows: 



1. Verbal forms sometimes drop the declarative -a, as in gankank, 

 hushtso'%, shiug, especially in the Klamath Lake dialect. 



2. The liartkiph of the present has the terminal -ank, -ink, -nnk in the 

 Klamath Lake dialect. 



3. Transposition from -ka, -^a, as in tapa% leaf for tApka; verb tApka 

 to stand out, projeet. 



4. The gutturals are final sounds of a thematic root, as in laklak, adverb 

 of laklakli smooth, level. 



5. The diminntive nominal suftix -aga, -ak, -ag in an abbreviated form. 

 Instances of this will be seen under -aga; but we can add ktchitchok little 

 hat, for ktchitchoaga. 



6. Sometimes the demonstrative pronoun ke is abbreviated into -k, as 

 in ik thou, or the verb gi to he, to do, to say into the same sound; cf laplk 

 there were two (of them), katak to tell the truth, etc. 



7. Substantives in which the final -k could possibly represent a real 

 derivational or formative svffix are the following: 



'kiQ\vk\i mother-of-pearl shell {ohhre- ne'k, neg, plur. ne'gsha absent; cf 

 viated from ktchalka). niwa, niukla. 



ktchik oar, paddle. stdmk wasp. 



kii'Jc jjewis; from keka to pierce. tapsnek hrain, Kl. 



lak hair on head; cf lala. tok, species of plant. 



\yj\k canoe-pole. tsuak, species of plant. 



li'ik grizzly hear. tsuk, species of grass. 



ma'nk _/?//. wii'k, we'k arm, limh of tree ; from w4 



mulk worm, maggot; cf mulu rofteii to he productive (cf w^ka child, off- 

 wood spring). 



-ka, -%«, verbal suffi.x occurring sometimes also in the shape of -6ka, 

 -ga. Like -aga and -aga it forms factitive verbs, this term to be taken in its 



