504 GEAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



placed before the name. Leledshi and its diminutive leled.sliidga refer to 

 the young of maninials only. Cf. lilhanksh, in Dictionary. 



To the names of personified animals, occurring in the mythic stories of 

 the two tribes, is appended tlie adjective amtchiksh, abbr. -aintch, -anits, old, 

 ancient, hygone. In the conjurer's song-lines, in which the same animals are 

 frequently mentioned, I have not met with this adjective. 



Certain animals are known to these Indians under two or several 

 names; one of them is the usual one, the others are mere predicates or 

 epithets referring to individual peculiarities of the species. This sort of 

 polyonymy recalls the fifteen names for the clepJiaid and the twenty appel- 

 lations for the 6MM formerly in use in Sanskrit literature; also familiar terms 

 of European languages, like Master Bruiu for bear, Regixhart, renard for 

 fox, Isengrim for wolf, Raminagrohis (French) for cat, etc. Terms of this 

 description, which I have found to exist in Klamath, are all more or less 

 mythological, as follows: 



\uk grizzly hear : Shashaph, Shcishapamtch, Lukamtch; Xxxka^a grizzly 



hear cuh: shashapka. 

 wanaka little silver fox: mbaubawash (the "howler"), kenkatilatuash, 



kenkapshla'li, ndundutatuash. 

 tiggiiga quail: takAga. 

 yaii^al white-headed eagle: shkil'shki. 



With these we may fitly compare pshe-utiwasli, the archaic term for 

 mdklaks people, human beings, which occurs in mythic stories only. 



5. The names of plants. 



Trees, shrubs, grasses, and all vegetal growths bearing edible fruit or 

 berries, are very generally named after their products, and the names are 

 derived from them through the suffix of the possessive case : -am, -lam. 

 The noun to be supplied after this suffix, to make the phrase complete, 

 anku, tkap, tcholash, is, except in a few cases, elliptically omitted, so : 

 kp6kam gooseberry bush, for kp6kam anku, kp<Sk being the gooseberry 

 Even the ivhite oak, hudshnam, is called after its acorn, hi'idsha. 



