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-ks, see -kisli, ksh. 



-ksll, -ks, -ffsh, with vowel preceding. A number of words, chiefly 

 substantives, exliibit this terminal on account of a transposition of sounds, 

 by which the vowel coming after the guttural was placed before this sound. 

 All of them are derivatives of factitive verbs in -ka, -ga, chiefly intransitives. 

 Not to be confounded with - kish, -ksh. 



gutaksh (for gutkash) minnow ; from giita to adhere. 



ki'itagsli (for katkash) chill and adj. cold; katka to be cold. 



kelpoksh boilinfj heat, and adj. hot; ke'lpka to he hot. 



mdpoks (for mepkash) company ; mepka to live together. 



shla'yaks (for shlii-ikash) smoke ; shlii'-ika it smokes. 



shakpaksh (for shakpkash) plait of males ; shakpka to braid one's hair. 



-ksh, see -ash, -kish. 



-kshka, -ksga, verbal suffix composed of the verbal factitive suffix 

 -ka, -ga appended to the verbal indeffnite suffix -kish, -gish, -ksh It can 

 be rendered by to come near, to attempt, to do almost, forms transitive verbs 

 only, and is of rather frequent occurrence. In its function it approximates 

 -uya, -huya, q. v. 



el/akshka to attempt to give a name; from el;^^'- 

 hislilakshka to come near killing each other ; from hishlan. 

 kt(Sktakska to crop the hair ; cf ktoktcha. 

 kuakakshka to tear off only a piece ivith the teeth. 

 shh'kska to come near hitting, shooting ; from shli'n to shoot. 



-ktil, suffix forming chiefly transitive verbs, compounded of the facti- 

 tive suffix -aga and -ta, which forms applicative verbs and usually refers to 

 persons or long objects standing upright. All the verbs in -kta had better 

 be considered under -ta; some of them are nshakta it is sticking, shitchakta 

 to quarrel, shnuyakta to singe, etc. The verb shnahualpakta to raise an echo 

 is inverted from shnahuiilpka-ta. 



-kue'la, a suffix forming transitive and intransitive verbs of motion, 

 with the idea of a downward motion in an oblique direction, in direct contrast 

 with the verbs in -wala, q. v. The suffix contains the adverb kui or ku, which 



