L, th, prefix to nouns in 3rd pers. ; thl-et, his mother. 
L, th, prefix to verbs in 2nd pers. ; thl-oki, thou bitest. 
th, negative partióle, nono, short of ; laj, litios a , childless, barren ; 
tilla kio yi, armless. 
L, th, reflexivo ; ape, return thou ; thl-ape , return thou thyself. The 
th sound particularly is used like the h or j as an inherent reflexivo, 
to give strength and completion to eertain letters, e.g. V. ij-cha, 
not i-cha, my father ; L.-M. ith-chi , thou thyself ; Ch, thlaawu , 
wind ; Hile,, ñame ; nio-tlili-tiuj , cannibal, our eater. 
L, th, ínitial to verba. Scareely any absoluto nouns are to be found 
imder initial l or thl. By the term 58 absoluto nouns ” is meant 
those nouns whose pronominal partióles have lost tfaeir signifi- 
cance as, e.g. i-niat, water ; kyu-ni, tiger ; luj-se, a bow. Thus 
from a, to strike, is formen la and thla, to kill ; lana, killed ; ne-la-ne, 
fight, wage war ; lan-ki, slaughter animáis ; liana , a general forni 
for kill, slaughter, destroy, etc. 
L. The following root verbs are the most important : 
La-n, kill. 
La-n, remove, unloose, opeu, take ofi or out. 
La-nt, tie, bina. 
La-h, smooth, plañe, sweep. 
Lai, abandon, leave, cease. 
Laj, open out, unfold. 
La, movo ( lapeha , hang up). 
Lat, dry. 
Le, many words with la roots change to le. 
Lem, whlte, 
Lesan , make, do. 
Li, olean, wash. 
Lak, play, feast, game. 
Thlon, smoke tobáceo ; buril. 
Thlos, change residence. 
Thlut, bore. 
Te, word ; ka-le, word ; thle, ñame. 
Leowa, latea, animal, domestic animal ; V. la ; T. lo ; S. klau ; L.-M. 
wi-tip ; Q. chi-ta. La and wa are frequent partióles in the ñames 
of animáis ; i-waj-la , lion ; e-le, parrot ; G. yagua, dog ; Q. huy- 
hua, animal reared by hand ; Y. wan-thlój, ostrich. 
La, le, etc., partióle denoting of the family ; relation, animal, thing : 
kem-la , wife, husband ; kee-la, lízard ; ’nei-le, an idiot ; po-le, 
sky ; wee-la, rnoon ; a-la, tree ; les, children ; Lio-ni-lia, the 
Quechuas or Bolivian hill tribes ; thle-le, people of, or belonging to ; 
A-thle, the Chunupies. 
