638 GRAMMAR OF TDE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



Instances of other inflectional cases : 



■dtikln\a,^gi's\i foreigner, lit. "living in a distant land." 

 pakshtat tulish pqie-stem, lit. "handle in the pipe." 

 sunde=ka'klkish preacher, lit. "Sunday gesticulator." 

 wj\wa=tutu'ksh ear-wax, for wawakshtat tutii'ksh, lit. "what is taken 

 from the ears." 



(d). Comj)ounds formed of adjectives and substantives. 



When adjectives become connected with substantives so closely as to 

 form compound nouns they often appear in tlie apocopated form, especially 

 the adjectives ending in -li, -ni. Numeral adjectives also appear in a shorter 

 form. Having previously mentioned a few adjectives which appear chiefly 

 in the form of suffixes, as -amtch, -kani, -shitko, -tkani (pages 518-520), and 

 also adjectival abbreviations like kahkma skull-cap, and three others on page 

 516, I add the following examples: 



KahLulp ^^Eound-Epe," nom. pr. masc. 

 kahmomoksh fjlmv-uwm, firefly, Mod. 



kal=tchitchiks spider, from kalkali round, tchi'dsha to remain. 

 litch=katchiash strong person of short stature, from litchlitchli strong, pow- 

 erful, and ke'tcha in ketchkani small, short. 

 metsmets=sawals obsidian arrow-head. 



When adjectives and numerals are used in a sentence or phrase iniply 

 ing possession, they may become connected with a participle of the past, 

 and llien stand in their objective case. To the examples previously enu- 

 merated (page 616) I add the following, all from the Modoc dialect: 



hu snawedshash vunfpa wewesh^Itko this woman has four children (vu- 



ni'pa abbr. for vunipe'nash). 

 kudsha unku shtinashaltko a woodrat having a wooden house. 

 kudshA shnawc'dshaltko p'gi.shA pena a woodrat had his mother for a tvife. 

 vi'inam mb/i-ush tchutchieshaltko dressed in elk-slin caps, 90, 17. 



