370 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



-SZ*i- 'I'hh verbal suffix, sometimes pronounced -■'iJr/a, is usually ap- 

 pended to verbs ending in -na, -ta, -dsha or -tclia, and therefore lias a con- 

 sonant before it (excepted tos;(a, tus^a to shove, introduce into) wliich is j)re- 

 ceded by a short vowel. This suffix conveys the idea either (1) of close 

 proximity, and then answers to our near to, through, hetiveen ; or (2) that of 

 superposition, and then corresponds to over, upon, on the top of. Cf. -tchka. 



( L) hutjims;(a to run, rush, jump between; from hutna. 

 i-utams^a to he among, between; postpos. between. 

 ntultch%antcha to flow through or between. 

 tj'ils/a to see, look through a tube, 

 tgits^a to stand near or between. 



(2.) hins;(a to fall upon or near something. 



idi^x''^ to deposit long objects on the top of; from ita. 

 shleds^a to spread a sheet-like object over ; from shk'ta. 

 tilans^a to roll upon or to move the hand over something. 



-shla. The verbs ending in -shla are, the majority of them at least, 

 derived from nouns in -sh, and therefore belong to the verbs in -la, -ala, (]. \ , 

 Of these verba denominativa we have given examples under -ala Nk. 2, p. iilo. 



-t frequently terminates words, especially when preceded by a vowel. 

 Final -t is an inflectional ending or part of such, and often appears in an 

 apocopated form in the following two kinds of suffixes: 



1. Verbal conditional mode in -t : shnukat, from shniika to grasp; pat, 

 from ])an (for panat) to eat; idshaut, from idshna to earn/ off' etc. Cf Verbal 

 Inflection. 



2. Suffix -t, apocopated from -tat, -ta, -ti, -tu, is frequently met with, 

 especially in the oblique cases of adjectives, numerals, and of pre and post 

 positions; cf. Nominal Inflection and suffix -ta. 



kiiilant, kiii'lat for kiiilanti, kiiilatat on or in the ground. 



lapkshapt for lapkshapta(iii) seven. 



nagshtant, tugshtant for nagshtanta, tugshtanta. 



