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3. Suffix -uya, indicative of a smaller degree of intensity or stress: 

 somewhat, partially, not seriously. In a few verbs it may be replaced by 

 -kshka (q. v.). 



dlkuya, elk'liuya Mod., to attempt to give a name; for Kl. ^l;{aksbka. 



'mutchuya to try to imitate one^s parents (kmutchisli, "elders"). 



nge'slie-uya to tvound hut not to kill. 



shiiiknya to have a small fight, scuffle. 



shliuya to inflict a shot wound not fatal; from shlin. 



shluihuj'a to trot on horseback 



-U'la, see -ula. 



-U'li, see -61i. 



-upka, see -pka. 



-upka, see -opka. 



-tisll (vowel long); see -osh. 



-ll'ta, -o7rt, verbal suffix of a durative meaning, and almost always 

 emphasized on the penult. It is either inflectional or derivational, and 

 composes the suffix -6tkish and others; it forms transitive and intransitive 

 verbs from verbal, not from nominal, bases. The form -uta is more frequent 

 than -Ota. 



1. Inflectional suffix -uta corresponds to our during, pending, while, 

 ivhilst, sometimes to after, and forms the verbal durative, which undergoes 

 no inflection. 



gukemita while climbing; sta-6ta while fasting, starving. 



2. Durative verbs in -uta. They indicate that an act or condition lasts 

 during a certain time, or that it lasts while something else is performed or 

 occurring. 



il%6ta to bury along ivith. 



shnigota to send by mail. 



shkiuta to owe a debt. 



tchuta to treat for sickness ; contr. from tchi-uta. 



win6ta to accompany in singing. 



