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In animal terfhs 1 could not find this distinction. When speakirig of dnimals, If 

 it is necessary to distingnish sex, it is done by placing modified forms of the terms 

 for ' man ' and ' woman' before or after the class word, thus : — 



sueawe'ka sk-umai', dog stla'tlenai sk'umai', bitch. 



sQecen sueawe'ka, deer sQecen stla'tlenai, doe. 



In this respect the Sk-qo'mic agrees closely with the N'tlaka'pamuQ. In both 

 dialects it is obt^ervable that the modification of the qualifying word, though an 

 amplilication of it, differs from that which marks the plural. The reason of the redu- 

 plication here is not c'ear. There are a few terms used of male and female alike 

 without distinction of form in the use of which, if there is a possibility of ambiguity, 

 the pronominal forms tai and il'tli are added, thus : — 



stao'tl, child. wa'nim, orphan. 



sia'atEn, widow (a'tli). si'ya, lover. 



„ widower (tai). 



Case. 



The Sk-qo'mlc noun agrees here with the N'tlaka'pamuQ, and ordinarily under- 

 goes no modification for case. In certain expressions modified forms of the 

 inflectional personal pronouns are added to a word to mark possession or ownership, 

 as in the N'tlaka'pamuQ, thus :— 



tEn, tlEn, or 'n-lara, my house ; lam-tcit, our house ; 

 tE-lam or E-lam, thy house ; lam-yap, your house ; 

 (tE) lam-s, his house ; (tE) lam-s-wGt, their house. 



There is a very close resemblance here to the N'tlaka'pamuQ, though some of the 

 pronominal elements differ and the ' present ' and ' absent ' forms of the pronoun are 

 wanting in the Sk-qo'mic. 



The object noun when not the name of a part of the body is invariably distinct 

 from the verb, and undergoes no modification whatever, and commonly follows the 

 verb as in English, thus : — 



nE-qol'-nuq-ilas tEn sk-umai', ' he killed my dog ; ' 

 no' wet yu'itl, ' they are making a fire ;' 

 me'ska tEn ya'siauk-, ' give me my hat ; ' 

 nE-hOi-nuq-uas tEn lam, ' he has completed my house.' 



When, however, the object affected by the verbal action is a personal pronoun 

 other than the third persons, or is a noun descriptive of a part of the speaker's body, 

 then the object suffers modification, and is incorporated in the verbal synthesis. 

 But this incorporation is of a much looser character than in the typical incorporative 

 tono-ues or even in the kindred dialect of the N'tlaka'pamuQ. In the latter the 

 incorporated object, both noun and pronoun, is placed between the stem of the verb 

 and the personal inflection. In Sk-qo'mic the verb stem and subject pronoun are 

 always found together, and the object, whether noun or pronoun, is added to these 

 terminally as a suffix, thus : — 



Noun Object. 



Pbonoun Object. 



tcm-t'ie-sto'mi, I love thee. tcit-tle-se' w!t, we love yon. 



tcin-tle-sB'Tvit, I love you. tcit-tle's-?i'c^ we love them, 



'n-tles tai or tE mEnl'tl, I love him. tcit-tles tai or tE mEnl'tl, we love him. 



'n-tles a'tli or a'tli mEni'tL I love her. tcit-tles a'tli or ii'tli mEnl'tl, we love her. 



'n-tles itsi mEnEni'tl, I love them. (nB-^tle-stscl's, he loves me. 



tcit-tle-sto' mi, we love thee. tcuq-tle' s-tam, he loves thee. 



