516 GRAMMAU OF TUE KLAMATU LANGUAGE, 



Some of the adjectives in -li can drop this suffix. '^I'he remaining' 

 radix then serves for forming- com2)ound words, or it represents the adverb 

 corresponding to the adjective: 



metsmets=sfwals (for metsmt'tsli shawalsh) ohsidian arrow-head; Ht. 



"dark-blue arrow-tip." 

 pushpiish=uk shle'sh (uk/or hiik) it is black to look at, 73, 6. 



The radix of the adjectives of Class B is, in some instances, found to 

 occur in it.s simjile, unrednplicated form, especial!}' in compound substan- 

 tives and in verbs. Analogous to this is the fact that the adjectives of color 

 in the Sahaptin dialects occur regularly in both forms, the simple and the 

 dujilex, as in the Warm Spring- dialect lii'mt and lii'mtliimt for yellow. In 

 Klamath we have: 



kal=kma lialf-s;plierical skull-cap, for kalkali kmA. 



litchtakia to try hard, contains litchh'tchli strony. 



pa'^tgi to dawn, lit "to turn gray", contains piikpii'kli yray. 



Pusb=kiu '^Black-Posteriors" , nom. pr. masc, for Pushpiishli ki'u. 



tri';ijtki to become red, to blush, contains takt/ikli red. 



This is observed in some other verbs in -tki, -tyj, and is true even of 

 some adjectives of Class B, which revert to their adverbial form without 

 losing their adnominal signification: mu=laki headchief, ketcha4aki subchirf. 



The following table will show the grammatic relation in which almost 

 all the adjectives in -li, and a large number of those in -ni, -kni, -kani etc., 

 stand to their corresponding adverbs. Verbal adjectives in -tko, -ntko of 

 course do not form adverbs. Examples: 



litchlitch stronyly, forcibly ; litchh'tchli ralorous, jwwerful. 

 ke'tchketch rouyhly ; ketchkctchli rouyh to the touch. 

 mu stronyly, much, a yreat deal; muni larye, yreat. 

 &,i\far, high up; atini tall, distant; ati'kni stranyer. 

 ma'ntch lony ayo; ma'ntchni belonyiny to the past. 

 tank then, at that time; tJinkni belonyiny to that period. 

 tu over there; tukni cominy from there. 

 gita here; gitakni cominy from here, there. 



