EELATIVE PRONOUN. 541 



to a distance. Its real meaning is : what hind or sort off and so it has 

 passed into the function of a substantive : tiling, article, object, as in tumi tu4 

 many things. Cf Dictionary, page 415. It is inflected, like the pronoun 

 tua, as follows : 



tua ? end. tua ? which thing f ivhat sort off 

 tualash ? ivhich f 



tiialam ? of which f and forms the particles: 

 tuankshi ? at tvhich place f tuatala? tchyf 



This pronoun often appears in an enclitic and proclitic form. Tua ki, 

 contr. tuak ? what is it f occurs in : tua ki ml koga % what is it I suck out f 

 155; 17 ; cf 153; 4. 159; 58. Compare also the Klamath Lake and Modoc 

 songs 154 ; 13. 156 ; 35. 158 ; 56. 173 ; 3. 174 ; 8., and the instances given in 

 the Dictionary. Sometimes it is used of animate beings. 



t a n n i, abbr. tan, tan, d. tatanni, how inuchf how many? to what amount ? 

 in Lat. quot. This pronoun is not inflected, and, when in tlie full form, is 

 always pronounced with two n. Tanni mi watch gi ? how many horses have 

 youf lit. "how many horses are yours"? t4n a i wew^ash gitk! how many 

 children have you ? Cf Dictionary, page 389. 



t a n k, abbr. tan, abbr. from tanni ke ; d. tatank, is used interrogatively 

 in the same function as tanni, q. v. 



wak, wAk, d. wawak, is in fact a particle: how f but in many instances 

 has to be rendered in English by an interrogative pronoun : what "! E. g. 

 in : wak ma I what do you say f the literal rendering of which is : " how do 

 I hear"! 



III. RELATIVE PRONOUN. 



The relative pronoun k a t, proclit. kat, is of the same origin as the inter- 

 rogative pronoun kani ? who f Kat is not only a relative pronoun, but 

 simultaneously a demonstrative-relative pronoun, corresponding to il quale, 

 lequel in Italian and French, the real meaning of which is that who, that ivhich, 

 the one ivhich. The demonstrative pronoun hu'k, hu'nk, hun, etc , which 

 should always accompany kat to make the phrase or sentence complete, is 

 not found with it every time, though we meet with it in 97, 1 : kat huk 

 hii't tchui lah'ga Tuhu'shash which thing then remained sticking upon Miidhen; 



