THE L-INFLEOTION, 455 



THE L-INFLECTION. PARADIGM. 



The verbs following this inflection tLiniinate in -al or -la, and were 

 originally verbs in -ala (not -ala). Their paradigm differs from that of the 

 verbs in -a onl}^ by the occasional dropping of the short a before or after 

 the 1, which dropping is cansed by the shifting of the accent, and this by 

 the length or bulk of the suffix appended. The verbs in -al inflect as follows: 

 Declarative mode. 

 nil a patkal I rise from bed or sleep. 

 nu a papatkal / rise at different times. 

 nu patkaluapka, Mod. nil patkal tak / shall rise. 



Conditional mode. 

 nu patklat (for patkalat) / may rise. 



Imperative mode. 

 patkal i! arouse! patklat! arouse ye! get up! 



Participles. 

 pdtklank rising ; paklatko risen. 



Verbals. 

 patkalsh ge-u my rising; nilsh patkalsht after I had risen; patkaluish 

 gd-u my previous rising ; patkaluga, patkeluk, patkluk in order to 

 rise; patkalota while rising; patkaltgi /or the purpose of rising ; 

 patkalshtka on the point of rising. 

 The distributive form is inflected in the same manner. 

 The verbs in -la, -shla re-instate the short a before -1 when suffixes 

 beginning with a consonant are appended, vocalic suffixes producing no 

 change from the paradigm of the verbs in -a. Example: spiiklishla to erect 

 a sweat-lodge. 



Participles. 

 spuklish41tko a sweat-lodge having been erected. 



Verbals. 

 spuklishalsh, spuklishalsht, spuklishaltki, spuklishalshtka. 



THE N-INFLECTION. PARADIGM. 



This mode of inflection embodies the verbs in -n and those in -na (for- 

 merly -ana); the same phonetic laws control it as the previous inflection. 



