INTERJECTION. 569 



leki! legi! pi. lekat! quit! stop! cease! donH! 



nent (for nen at)! so it is! that is right! n^nt nc^nt ! right! right! Mod. 



oka-ilagen, d. oka-ilag-en ! Kl. wak hai la gen! certainly! of course! 



pa-ak, abbr pa I I do not knoiv ! 



sk6! d skiisku! come up! used when thinking over something not 



remembered immediately, 

 utch, lids! nevermind! don't care if! used when worrying oneself about 



something; li'tch git gi ! let go! quit! stop! 

 tchawai! well then! for tcha-u hai notv then; tchawai na! let us do it 



noiv! Mod. 

 waktchi huk! how curious! (wiiktchi for wakaptchi, q. v.), 24, 18. 

 wak(ianhua! wak yanhua ! I ivill be sick if I don't! 



B. INTEKJECTIONS OF AN INORGANIC NATURE. 



Ejaculations of this sort do not form organic parts of the sentence, and, 

 being no ivords, are excluded from the morphologic part of the grammar. 

 They are the true, genuine interjections, and are nearest related to wliat we 

 call a root, in its abstract, naked form. Indeed, some of these interjections 

 are forming words or derivatives in every language; for Klamath, some are 

 mentioned below and on page 250. In their origin, these derivatives come 

 nearest to the derivatives of onomapoetic roots, as names of animals, esjie- 

 cially birds, as quoted pages 250, 323. Some interjections are formed by 

 iterative reduplication, which appears here as an onomatopoetic element. 

 War and dance songs are largely made up of unmeaning syllables and terms 

 whicli resemble interjections of this sort Repetitions of this same character 

 also occur in such forms as tiimi-i-i tut mnmj, mamj teeth, wliich stands for a 

 superlative of tiimi many*, and strongly reminds us of the Semitic t6btob 

 tiery good, from tob good, 



anana! anana! expression of bodily pain or distress; from this the 



verb anana- a to cry anana. 

 a'-oho, i-uhu, i-nhiihu, war cry or yell comparable to the Greek dXaXA, 

 iXeXev, and forming a verb like this: a-oho=hutchna to advance 

 while crying a! -oho. 



• Cr. Gradatiou of tliii A(lji<-livc, page h-H. 



