650 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



kiink a ni sil'tu I am cotintin// so many, 70, i). 



ml a gatpa pa'p 1, the marie n, am coming, 177 ; 10. 



sluiedshna tchu'nk at pe'n a then again fhcij went to gamble (Mod.). 



Instances where a coalesces with other particles or words may be 

 found ill Dictionary, page 15. 



<lt now, presently; at that time; then, hereupon, finally. This particle 

 may be abbreviated into a, and is pronounced mostly witli tlie vowel long ; 

 (at); it either points to the present tense or to an act preceding (cf. page 

 584) or following another act. It can serve as a conjunction or as an 

 adverb, and its position in the sentence is very free ; when it becomes the 

 final word of a sentence it is generally pronounced with emphasis. 



When closely connected with other particles, at often fulfils the office 

 of a mere expletive : tcha at noio, presently, 87, 14; tchi'ii at hereupon, 23, 4 ; 

 and in the following particles taken from Modoc : tchikuidt at and then, for 

 tchik hu'iik at; atchkunk then, for at tchek hunk; atunk, atchiink then, here- 

 upon, for at hiink, at tchisli hunk. Other particles are subordinate to at 

 in locutions like the following : atu, atui now, at present; ^itutu just now, 

 already ; atch, .Its then, for at tchish. 



1. At used as a conjunction : 



at gatpa at shlo'kla when they had arrived they shot at the mark, 100, 20. 

 it'ha unk iianuk tchulishtat, tchulian u'nk at kin all heads he j}laced on 



his huckskin shirt and thereupon he dressed in it (Mod.). 

 Wanaga hunk at g^mpele, i-amnash nanuk i'tcha I'kgan after Young 



Silver Fox had returned home he tvon all the beads (from them; Mod.)- 



2. At serving as an adverb : 



at nil k'lewi now I quit ; now I have enough of if. 



dt nen g^pka pe'n a notv they come again, said they (Mod.). 



Ats (for At tchish) nal lie tuana shuedshipka now they approach us again 



for gambling (Mod.). 

 kA-i ktchalhui ukau^osh pii'dshit at the moon does not shine to-night. 

 tuA nad shute-uapka at I what shall we do nowf 



luii, ai, ai, a-i (Mod. hai, kai, ;^ai, ai) — enlarged haitch, ai'tch. 7'his 

 particle, whenever translatable, corresponds best to our evidently, clearly, 



