30 THE NOUN.
hiki-dashi, "a drawer;" from Jiiku, " to pull," and dasu,
"to take out." ki-gae, " a change of clothes ; " from kiru, "to wear,"
and kaeru, "to change."
make-oshimi, "reasons trumped up to excuse one's own failure" (as by the fox in the fable, who said that "the grapes were sour"); from makeru, "to be defeated," and oshimu, " to regret."
shi-awase, "good luck;" from suru, "to do," and awa-
senij "to cause to meet." tachi-giki, "eavesdropping;" from tatsu, " to stand,"
and kiku, " to hear," " to listen."
tori-atsukai, "management," "treatment;" from font, " to take," and atsukau, "to manage."
1i 46. It will be noticed that, in all the above instances, one part of the compound modifies the other. The gender and some of the number forms (e.g. sho-kun on p. 27) are really such compounds. So are the augmentatives formed by prefixing o, the root of okii, "big," and the diminutives formed by prefixing ko, "child" (very rarely o, "small") thus :
baka, " a fool ;" o-baka, " a great fool." ishi, " a stone ;" ko-ishi, " a pebble." nezumi, " a rat ;" o-nezumi, " a large rat ;" ko-nezumi 9 " a small rat."
N. B. The names of the young of animals are not formed by pre- fixing ko as a particle, but by using it as an independent word, thus :
inn no ko } .. lit. dog , child }" a puppy."
mukade no >} a young centipede." lit. centipede '* child)
