474 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



tcliek'ya nu liun mantchf'ikash shapcle I give bread to this old man. 



sliapiya m'na p'gislia she said to her mother. 



nil a wiitcliash anibu lu'ishpaima I give water to the horse to drink. 



ka-i kaislinuli'at luixagsli they ivotild not uncover (the lodge) for the bear- 

 cubs, 120, 17. 



Mo'dokishash ktchinksh pap/illa they stole the rails from the Modoc In- 

 dians, 35, 21. 



b. Objects of tlie inanimate order: 



pawash kt'dsha ait;(amenash ko'l the jidwash-root grows smaller than ko'l, 



148, 7. 

 stfya n;ji'-uliga laki pitch trickled down on the forehead, 97, 1. 

 nii'poks ai nu tashulfi'la I pass my hand over the disease, 155, 21. 

 spiillii lapni ilKSlasli to imprison for two years. 



tiinepni waitash W(>k.salslia they gather lily-seed for five days, 74, 7. 

 awalues sha skena they row over to the island, 74, 14. 

 a n'sh p'laiwash shtilta he sent me after the eagles, 101, 15. 



c. Objects of the inanimate gender when occurring in songs and 



mythic stories: 

 hiik lah'ga Tiihu'shash it remained sticking upon Mudhen, 97, 1. 

 pi taplalash tpii'wa he gave orders to the loon, 132, 2. 

 ydnash a-i ni shk'wish wi'ta I, the wind, am singing about the yen-fish, 



165; 6. 

 mo-6we ktchidshuash hu'tnan the mole leaping upon the bat, 127, 5. 

 Tchekaksh mbu'shaksh yiyu^oga Uilpat to Blackbird they pushed arroiv- 



heads into the eyes, 113, 16. Cf. 114, 9. 122, 9. 



3 Possessive case in -am, lam. 



This suffix is always pronounced short (-am, -lam), and it takes the 

 accent in composite cases only. In Modoc it is often pronounced -6m, -l6m, 

 or still shorter, -'m, -I'm. The longer form, -lam, is the original one, but 

 occurs only in nouns terminating in -a, -a, -e, though there are a few in- 

 stances of other vocalic suffixes taking -lam also: kailiu, poss. kailiulam 

 feather mantle, as if derived from a term kailiwa. The suffix was originally 



