Gatschet.1 420 [M ay 7( 



from analogy, the following terms may possibly be worded in the plural 

 form : marmeuk eyebroic(s), messiliget-hook bab(icsf), moisamadrook 

 wol(ves?), berroich clouds, ejabathook sails. Compare also edot fishing line, 

 adotliook fish hook; the latter perhaps a plural of the former. The numer- 

 als 7, 8, 9 also show a suffix -uk, -ook. * 



Adjectives are exhibiting formative suffixes of very different kinds 

 gosset and gausep dead, gasook dry, boos- seek blunt, homedich good, 

 ass-soyt angry, eeshang-eyghth blue, ashei lean. 



The phrase shedbasing wathik upper arm would seem to show, that the 

 adjective, when used attributively, precedes the noun which it qualifies. 



The numerals of our list are all provided with the suffix -eek or -ook ; 

 what remains in the numerals from one to ten, is a monosyllable, except 

 in the instance of six and nine. Yaseek is given as one and as first (in the 

 term for April),* but whether there was a series of real ordinals we do 

 not know. 



Compound nouns. A few terms are recognizable as compound nouns, 

 and in them the determinative precedes the noun qualified : 

 wash-geuis moon, lit. : "night-sun." 

 bobbiduish-emet lamp; probably : "fire-oil." 

 kaesin-guinyeet blind; probably for "dry on eyes." 

 moosin-dgej-jebursiit ankle; contains moosin moccasin. 

 adasweet-eeshamut December; contains odusweet hare, rabbit. 

 aguathoonet grinding stone; probably contains ahune stone in the 

 initial agu-, agua-. 

 No pronouns whatever could be made out with any degree of proba- 

 bility. 



Concerning the verbal inflection we are almost entirely without reliable 

 dates, nor do we know anything concerning the subjective and objective 

 pronouns necessarily connected with conjugational forms. 



(1.) Verbs mentioned in the participle -ing or in the infinitive gener- 

 ally end in -t and -k. 

 -t: amshut to get up, awoodet singing, bituwait to lie down, cheashit to 



groan, marot to smell, kingiabit to stand, washoodiet to shoot. 

 -k: carmtack to speak, deschudodoick to blow, ebathook to drink, odishuik 

 to cut. 

 (2.) Imperative forms, to judge from the English translation, are the 

 following : 



deiood ! come with us ! dyoom ! come hither ! 

 dyoot thouret ! come hither ! (Tlob. kooret ! kooset !) 

 nadyed you come back (?) 

 cockab6set ! no fear ! do not be afraid ! 

 bobathoowytch ! beat him! 

 deh-hemin ! give me ! 

 (3.) Participial forms are probably represented by : amet aicake, gosset 



and gausep dead, apparet sunken (Rob. aparit. ) 

 * Perhaps also in June, July, September. 



