668 GKAJVIMAR OP THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



THE INTERJECTION. 



This class of Avords is composed of exclamations resulting from wilful 

 or unwilful outbursts of feeling, and may serve to express asserrt, welcome, 

 wonderment, surprise and joy, or tei'ror, trouble, pain, distress and disap- 

 proval. The two kinds of interjections can be easily distinguished from 

 each other: One of them consists of organic words of the language, either of 

 single terms, inflected or not, or of phrases and even sentences; the other 

 is formed by inarticulate, natural sounds, representing the crude utterances 

 of certain physical or mental feelings. Exclamations of this sort do not 

 form organic parts of the language and are not inflected, hence are no 

 words in the strict sense of the term. 



A. INTERJECTIONAL WORDS AND PHRASES. 



As to their origin, the interjections of this class are of the most various 

 description. Adverbs and verbs are mainly used for the purpose, often 

 with an altered signification. 



dtui ! now! at once! found in Modoc impei'ative sentences. 



g^tak ! gii'tak ! Mod. kanktak ! stop! quit! that's enough! that will do! 



gfn ! pi. ginkat ! do it! (jo on! hurry up! 



hagg'i ! hclka! pi. haggut ! Mod. hi'iggai e! lo! hole here! hehold ! hnkA 



ye pa'k ! let me eat first! Mod. 

 hatata ! implies menace, threats, like the Vergilian qnos ego! 

 111! hi-i ! hi-itok ! doivn on tlte ground ! sit down! 

 hiiya! hu-iya ! donHgo! stay ivhere you are ! 

 humasht ! thafs right! 

 I'.unamasht! is that sof indeed f Mod. 



kal'ash! abbr. ka'sh! exclamation heard from old Modoc men. 

 kiiilash stani ! the most opprobrious epithet m the northern dialect. 

 kapkAblantaks ! Mod. kapkapagiiik i! pi. kakapkagink at! hush up! 



silence! stop talking about this! 

 kuitak ! get away! go hack! aivay from here! 

 ke-ash, kii'-ash! had thing! a term used in speaking to children, derived 



from ki'i-i hadly, and forming the verb kii-ashtaiinia, q. v. 



