708 GEAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



watted dish, and a sort of scoop or paddle, larger than the shaplasli (for sha- 

 pa'hlash) matted plate, dish, or paddle. Pala also designates the liver, an 

 organ of the body which the })opular mind pnts in close connection with 

 the feelings of thirst. Pala-ash is dried food, either flour or bread, palala, 

 an inchoative verb: to become dry, palkish dry river bed, pAli)ali (for jnilpal-li) 

 white, lit. "bleached," or the color of dry vegetation; spal, in Modoc tchpal 

 ocher, yellow paint, lit. "becoming dry npon somebody," wapalash dead tree, 

 for npalash ; stopela and stopalsha to scrap)e o/?"the fibrous bark of pine-trees, 

 lit. "to render dry (pine-trees) on the top;" stopalsh fiber-bnrh of coniferse. 

 The verb pata it is dry season or summer also became a noun : summer, 

 summer-heat, and in the form of pfita, mpata, mpatash also means milt, 

 spleen. Paha forms pahalka to dry, v. trans., to become dry, v. intr. and to 

 suffer of a lingering disease, whence pti'hlaksh emaciated ; pahalka to be jter- 

 manently sick, papahuatko haviny dried-up eyes, pa'htchna to be thirsty, pa'h- 

 pa'hsli, pa'hpash earivax, lit. "what turns dry." 



Pet'a to disrupt contains a radix pet- resembling in its function that of 

 pu- in pui. The derivatives of it are petila to be a midwife and midwife, cf 

 page 37.5; ktept'ta or ktepta to notch, indent and lepc'ta to tear off particles 

 from the rim of a round object and to mark the ears of cattle ; lelpt'tatko 

 indented. This radix also appears with change of vowel in kmapat'hiena- 

 tko wrinkled, furrowed; but petc'ga, pitc^a to break, tear has to be derived 

 fi'om tega, ndega, not from pdt'a. 



P'lai, plai tip, above, on hiyh, and upward has formed man}- derivatives 

 without and with vocalic alteration of the radix. Directly derived from it 

 are p'lai'kni the one heiny above or coming from the upper parts of, p'laitankni 

 (same), p'le'ntana upon the top, p'laiwash yolden eayle, lit. "the one staying 

 high uj)," p'letoi;{i to lift or pmrse up, especially said of the lips, etc. With 

 the vowel c p'lai appears in pelpela to work, which seems to refer to repeated 

 lifting of the arms oi- hands for manual labor; in ))('lta to put out the tongue, 

 pelhipgli to draw the tongue in; the vowel e becomes displaced by anathesis 

 in shepulta to touch part of one's body with the tongue, shepalua to put the 

 tongue in and out as a gesture of mockery, shepolamna to carry about on one^s 

 shoulders, an act which implies a lifting up like its causative hishphVmna to 

 tow by means of a rope or string slung over the shoulder. With the vowel a 



