454 GRAMMAR OF TDE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



witli tlio u foregoing in the No 1 class of verbs ; but in the No. 2 class it is 

 optional for the speaker to contract the two vowels or to pronounce tlieni 

 separately. 



Class No. 1: gatpnu to arrive out there: gatpnunk for gatpnuank . 

 tdmenu to travel; tanienotka to return from travel; tanienug for tf'ini6nu-ug, 

 verbal causative. 



Class No. 2: memuatko or mc'mutko camped in the prairie ; hcshkuank 

 or hdshkunk hetting with each other; sha'tuarik or sii'tunk counting. 



A full paradigm seems unnecessary. 



THE I-INFLECTION. 



There are several classes of verbs following the inflection in -i or -e: 

 (1) verbs having no other suffix but -i, -e, which is tiie suffixed |)ronominal 

 particle hi, hi; (2) verbs ending in the compound suffix -ia, -ea (not the 

 emphasized -fa, -lya, -ca), of which the final -a is sometimes suppressed in 

 the absolute form to re-appear in other forms of inflection ; cf alahi and 

 alahia, spukli and spuklia ; (3) verbs in -i, which have a parallel form in 

 -a, as kuki and kuka; (4) verbs in -a, of which some inflectional forms 

 show -i, -e, where -a is expected. 



The verbs in -i subjoin to themselves the inflectional endings in the 

 usual way; and when the suffixes begin with a vowel, sjniizesis takes place 

 but exceptionally, as in gl'nk, gl'n for giank, gian existinfj. The -i is elided, 

 however, in the verbs ending in -uli (-<'ili) and in -pcli ( p'li, -pli), as follows: 



gatpampgli to return home ; gatpampalank, not gatpampeliank. 

 wetoli to fall down; wetolank, not wetoliank or wetulink. 



Of classes 3 and 4 the following instances may suffice : 



ma'sha to he sick; mashitko, mashetko sick, suffering. 

 nuta, V. intr. to burn; nutfsh the fact of burning. 

 shniita to dry by the fire; shnutetko parched, dried. 

 spekpela to squint; sj)ekpelitko squinting. 



shnawakftko ivearing a necklace, from shnawaka, has to be explained as 

 a contraction of its longer form, shnawakash gitko. 



