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yusliakna to use the index-finger (yiislip^isli). 

 kiie'na to make or leave footprints. 

 l;^awana to move the fingers., toes. 

 pana to plunge under the water. 

 shewana to give, hand over. 

 spelshna to put fingers forward ; cf. sp^luish. 

 stut^na to emit .sound or voice, stiitxish. 

 wakgna to change the voice at maturity. 



Many verbs in -na lose this suffix in the distributive form; cf. p. 273. 



-Ill, nominal suffix related to -na, and especially frequent in adjectives 

 and numerals. 



1. Among adjectives those in -ni are among the most frequent, and de- 

 scribe qualities of an abstract or inmiaterial sort, while those in -li are of 

 the concrete order. This suffix is almost invariably preceded by a vowel, 

 and in the oblique cases changes to or adds -(iuash, -a'nash, -ya'nash etc., as 

 will be seen in the chapter "Adjective." When the suffix -ni is retrenched, 

 the stem or radix remaining is usually, not always, the adverb. Cf Suffix 

 -tani. 



ke-uni .slow, easy; adv. k^-una and k^-uni. 



kinkaniye<c, scarce; adv. kinka, ginka. 



komu'shni runaway, wild. 



letaliuii mischievous, vicious ; cf tala straight. 



\uinui first in rank or age ; adv. lupf. 



muni ^rea^, large, bulky; adv. miV. 



stani full, replete of; adv. sta. 



tapini coming next, subsequent; adv. tapi. 



2. Certain substantives can be transformed into a sort of adjectives by 

 the affixation of -ni, in the distributive form -nini, with the definition of: 

 ''all that sort of, all that refers to or is connected ivith him, her, it, thon." Thus 

 wewanuish tvomen forms wewansni women and all, women and their families; 

 maklaksni Indians and all connected with them. Tataksni children occurs in 



