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composed with -ni are found in shuidshashksaksini, tutaslitali'ksini, vusho- 

 ksaksini, j'Antani, tat^elfimpankani. 



The suffix -ni, used in an adverbial sense, occurs in the adverbial 

 numerals: lapni twice; in tchushni always^ tumeni often, and is not inflected 

 then, as may be seen 112, 7. 10, where we find katni to those inside the 

 Jcaydta; if it was inflected as an adjective, we would expect katniash, or 

 kayatniash. 



-ptchi, abbr. -tchi, -tch, -mtchi, -mtch, marks likeness to, similarity 

 in appearance, and is comparable to our suffix -like, -ly. It forms adjectives 

 from substantives, adjectives, pronouns and adverbs. 



'Sh, - s composes adjectives having the nature of substantives, some of 

 them referring to temperature : kelpaksh hot and ]icat, katags cold, etc. Tliey 

 appear either with the suffix -ish, -esh, or with -kish, -gish, -ksh, -gs ; cf List 

 of Suffixes. 



-thani. Mentioned under -kani and elsewhere. 



-tho (-tk, -Itko, -ntko) forms verbal adjectives, as spiigatko gray-coiored, 

 nki'llitko stronff, forcible, etc. 



To the above list we add a few adjectives of a rather general significa- 

 tion. Many of them become so closely agglutinated to the substantive to 

 which they belong as to lose their accent, and the shorter ones of them are 

 postpositive, whereas the common adjective has its regular position in the 

 sentence before the noun qualified. The distributive form, which a few of 

 them have, is scarcely ever used. 



Amt chi k s h abbr. -amtcli, old, is transposed from ma'ntch gi'sh, 

 ma'ntch; the definitions may be gathered from the Dictionary, page 21. 

 When -amtch refers to ancestral belief, it is appended to all mythic beings 

 of the Indian religion, as in Shukamtch Old Heron. It may refer also to 

 old people, and then shows a derisive admixture incident to old age, like 

 the Italian suffixes -accio, -uccio : Wakenamtch, nom. pr.. Old Fellow 

 changing his voice. In the sense of used up, or good for nothing, it is said 

 of articles of liousehold or daily use, as in sho'pamtch had, miserable soap. 

 Nouns ending in -sh, -s lose this suffix before -amtch. 



