518 GKAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



- i appears separately as a suffix only in a few adjectives, as kii-idshi 

 bad, tldshi good, tnm'i mani/. Ati is abbreviated from ati'ni, like wunni from 

 wenin'ni. 



-kani appears in a few adjectives only, as yanakani, ketchkani, ntchd- 

 kani, tp^alampankani ; in the following it points to an uncounted, undeter- 

 mined number or quality, and is equivalent to our some: tumikani maklaks 

 a number of persons, some people; kinkankani a few. It also forms the suffix 

 -tkani, q. v. Cf. page 343. 



-kianki, -gianggin ; "for oneself", in List of Suffixes. 



-kni forms adjectives marking provenience or origin from, and hence 

 frequently occurs in tribal names. In oblique cases the -n- is usually 

 dropped after the k- : yamakni northern., obj. case : yamakishasli, for the 

 oblique cases are formed from a suffix -kish. The suffix is a contraction of 

 -kani, although it differs now greatly from it in its function. Adjectives in 

 -kni have often to be rendered in English by the corresponding adverb : 



tiV kni p'lii'ntankni sa shlin they shot from above in the distance, 23, 21. 

 hunkelamskni lugs guikaga the slave ran away from this man^s house. 



Several adjectives in -kni are derived from the oblique, especially loc- 

 ative cases of substantives and pronouns, and from adverbs or postpositions : 

 kokagtalkni, Lokuashtkni, Shikueshtkni, nakushxe'nkni, p'laitaldntni (for 

 p'laitalantkni ?), 173; 1. 



- 1 i forms concrete adjectives descriptive of surface-quality, or of inten- 

 sity of motion. Their radical structure and the affinity of -li witli -flla (-la) 

 and the prefix 1- have been hinted at elsewhere. This suffix forms no com- 

 pound suffixes. 



-ni forms adjectives, most of which are of an abstract or immaterial 

 import ; it also forms compound adjectival suffixes, often having an adverbial 

 signification when translated into English. The ending may be preceded 

 by a vowel, as in atini fall, kd-uni slotv, t;^e-uni first, or by a consonant, as 

 in tunepni fii)e and the other numerals, tzdlamni middle, komu'shni wild, etc. 

 The insertion of -sin-, -en- in the oblique cases, and the forming of collect- 

 ive nouns by appending -ni, distr. -nini, was mentioned above. Suffixes 



