668 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE, 



The Klamatli examples do not differ much from tlie above except that 

 tliey are susceptible of inflection by case-endings. If I am justified in re- 

 garding word-composition as a syntactic process, nominal compounds might 

 all be considered as instances of incorporation. But it is safer to regard 

 them so only when such compounds show loss or alteration by aphaeresis 

 or apocope, because this goes to prove that the combining of the elements 

 has been of a close and forcible nature. 



ati ktiilagish foreigner, for atinish kailatat gish. 



ga-ulipkan e-ushtat gunigshta arriviiifi at the opposite shore of the lake, 

 Mod.; stands for ga-uHpkan gunigshtant e-ush. 



hiitak=tcln'tko setfler, lit. "a liver there." 



yaukela stupuyuk stina'sh menstrual lodge, lit. "cry and dance- for first 

 menses-lodge." 



kilila=tatamnuish mole, for kailatat tatdmnuish. 



kapkagatat=stina'sh lutila to stay in a brush-lodge. This inversion from 

 kapkaga=shtina'shtat can take place only, because both terms are 

 practically considered as being one word. 



kc'tcha=bubanuish tippler, lit. "a pettily drinker." 



]uIuks=skutc]ialtko wrapped in fire, for lulukshtat ski'itchaltko. 



mashishtat shi'-usha shatelaks salve, lit. "on sores-to line-oneself rub- 

 bing-substance." 



piiksh ge-u ipakslikshakshi gt'na nii I go to my camass-storing place. 

 Ipaksh storing-place stands for ipkash through metathesis, and is the 

 verbal indefinite of ipka to he kept or stored; piiksh camass is object- 

 ive case depending of fpaksh, the verbal function being retained. 



shiiilkish;ijcni "Mo'dok Point" shL'shash gislii gatpa they went to the reser- 

 vation called Modoc Point, lit. "to the reservation Modoc Point (its) 

 name- at they went," 34, 11). Cf also shrsha in 189; 3, and Note. 



spakd=vve'sh ice-punch, ice-breaker, for we'sh spako'tkish. 



vu'lzashti kili'wash=shkiitatk u^hlutuina dressed in a borrowed woodpecker 

 skin mantle he trails it along the ground, 1S9; 6. Here vu'l;^ashti 

 and kill' wash are both equally dependent of shkutatk ("dressed in 

 mantle"), and vu'I^ashti again depends of kili'wasli. The full case- 

 form would here be vu'l^ashti kili'washti or kili'washtat, but the 

 suffix -ti occurring in one part of the combine will do for both. 



