—— Ss. mc 
ti eel 
ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 675 
Futurum exactum: hiscitlaktlanits 
Ist Conditional : hiscitltsimatsic 
2nd Conditional : hiscitlatahints 
SUBJUNCTIVE PASSIVE. 
let me be struck (=strike me), hiscits let us be struck, hiscié'ne 
thou mayest be struck, hiscié'itsh you may be struck, hiscié'itsd 
he may be struck, hiscié'it they may be struck, hiscié'it 
INFINITIVE. 
Active: to strike, hiscit? Passive: to be struck, hisciat 
Participle. 
one killing, k-aqsape' one being killed, h:agsapatit 
one having killed, k-agsaptskme one about to kill, k;agsapnahet 
Bishop Lemmens does not give any detailed information on the transitive 
yerb incorporating the pronominal object. I found the following forms in the 
Ts’icia/ath dialect. The terminations are suffixed to the verb with its various 
temporal characters. In order to simplify matters I give only the terminations : 
Subject. 
Singular Plural 
Object 
1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person | 1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person 
1st person singular _ —éitsEs —ata — —éitsd (?) —atahatl 
Qnd ,, = —ah sd'titl — —até@its —ine sd’titl — —atéitsatl 
ards yy “ —a —Z@its —atE’ma |—ine —é'itsd —amaatl 
Ist ,, plural — —Vits n@hetl | —atinE _ —é'itsd né hetl|—atineatl 
2nd ,, “ —ah s@haitl — —at@etsd |—ineséhaitl = —até’etsdatl 
ora 4, = —atl —@itsatl —atEmaa/tl |—ineatl —éitsdatl —atEmaatl 
IMPERATIVE. 
Subject. 
Object 2nd person singular 2nd person plural 
1st person, singular —is —itces 
3rd ys . —i —ite 
ish 5, plural! —ine —itcine 
ard. > 4; a —iatl —ite’atl 
NotEe.—Whenever the verb is accompanied by an adverb the latter may, and in 
the majority of cases does, take the verbal inflections. 
I do not (1) sing (2), wé'kah nond'k. 
The looseness of the composition of the verb and its modal and temporal cha- 
racters and personal terminations is clearly brought into view by this fact. The verb 
sometimes retains its temporal character, while the adverb takes both temporal 
character and personal ending. 
If I had been well I should have gone, ayétlitah wékcaha'mith:ds woha'katl. 
uyétlitah, I should have been some time (from w#yé, some time). 
mékcaha', to be well. Suppositional past, Ist person singular, wékcaha'mitk'os. 
nmoha'k’atl, having gone, from woha'k to go, to leave. 
DERIVATIVES. 
Quotative: —wo-i'n, Tlad'kath : wa-t'c 
it is said he is sick, ¢2itlvo-i'n (Ts’icia/ath) 
téitlva-i'c (Tlad'kath) 
