598 GRAMMAR OP THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



Tclimu'tchrim tiila.ak slilopakiuVpkasli sliayuakta he knew that hy Frank 

 Rkldlc he would be protected with Jinnuess, 3G, 12. 15. 



lakf hesh(3gsha E-ukshikisham kteliiiiksli pen pdllash the chief com- 

 plained that the Klamath Luke Indians had again stolen their rails, 

 35, 17. 



y witchta Canby watch shewanapelisli Canhy refused t» return the horses, 

 39,12. Cf. 24, 16; 36, 13. 14. 



sha'walsh tiimena (nfi) I heard that he has slandered, 185 ; 38. 



c. Another series of verbs requiring the verbal indefinite to express 

 their syntactic object or complement are those expressing inability, stoppage, 

 termination, exhaustion, dread, and also those indicating habit or custom. We 

 find, e. g., the following verbs construed with this verbal : keshka and 

 tchana to be unable; kelevvi to cease, stop; vuna, vunha to finish, terminate; 

 kcdshika to be tired, exhausted; yayaki to be afraid of; netu to have the prac- 

 tice of; k^l%a nush I am accustomed to. 



kc'shka ml ko'sh hishdktgish / am unable to shake the pine tree; cf 42, 6. 

 kcshguga idshi'sh being unable to remove them, 38, 1. 

 k'lewi-uapka nat shellualsh ice will quit fighting. 

 vun'a an ge-u steginsh ledshish I have finished knitting my stocking. 

 nu kt'dshika hemkanksh I am tired of talking, 42, 3. 

 nu yd'ya'ki guki'sh I dread to climb up. 

 ndtu an ledshish steginsh I am practiced in knitting stockings. 

 kel/a a n'sh iinak gc'-u patkalsh I am ivont to rise early; lit. "rising 

 early by me is habitual with me." 



B. — The VERBAL INDEFINITE in -SHAM contains the possessive pronoun 

 sham, which is here so closely agglutinated to the verbal indefinite that 

 the -sh, -s of one of the two has disappeared. Sham may be either the 

 possessive case of sha they, or an abbreviation of hu'nkelamsham, liu'ksham, 

 hu'nktsham, ke'ksham, or of any of the pronouns forming their plural by 

 means of final sha they. That sham is really a word separate from the ver- 

 bal indefinite preceding it is proved by the passage 23, 9: ka-i sam wii'walsh 

 shlin / shot (her) because they tvould not alloiv (her to me), which is equiva- 

 lent to ka-i wiiwalsham (for wewa-ulash sham, d. form of w^-ulash, from 



