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tions to this, and some of the verbs will be found to terminate in 
ang, ing, awng, ong and ung.” The Japanese infinitive in mi, to 
which there are many exceptions, does not resemble this termination, 
but connects with the Turkish infinitive in mek and the Magyar in 
nt. Neither does the common LooChoo and Sioux form resemble 
the Mantchu in re, or the Mongol in hu. We are thus, I think, 
justified in, holding that the Dacotah verbs echong, make, dowang, 
sing, and yazang, be sick, are the same words as the LooChoo 
oochoong, ootayoong and yadong, having meanings identical. But a 
confirmation of the Peninsular origin of the Dacotahs even more 
interesting is afforded by a comparison of the Assiniboin infinitive, 
or at least verbal termination, with that of the Kamschatdale. The 
Assiniboin verbs in their simplest form end in atch, itch ; thus we 
have passnitch, tusnitch, to love, wunnaeatch, to go, eistimmatch, to 
sleep, aatch, to speak, wauktaitch, to kill, wawmnahgatch, to see, 
aingatch, to sit, mahnnitch, to walk, &c. Similarly in Kamtchatdale 
we meet with kasichtshitch, to stand, koquasitch, to come, kashiatsh, 
to run, ktsheemgutsh, to sing, kassoogatsh, to laugh, koogaatsch, to cry 
&c. It is true that the Kamtchatdale kowisitch, to go,and kwatsh- 
quikotsh, to see, are unlike the Assiniboin wunnaeatch and waum- 
nahgatch, except in their terminations ; but, as I have already indi- 
cated the connection of the Dacotah and Kamtchatka vocabularies, 
this is an objection that fuller knowledge of Kamchatdale would 
probably remove. It was the verbal terminations of Sioux in 7g and 
of Assiniboin in tch that decided the question in my mind of the 
Old World relations of the Dacotab family of language and tribes. 
Those who are better acquainted with the Peninsular languages may 
be able to account for diversities in the Dacotah dialects by corres- 
ponding differences in them. That two such unusual forms as the 
LooChoo and Kamchatdale should occur in one American family is 
very strong presumptive evidence in favour of that family’s Penin- 
sular derivation. 
The grammatical construction of the Dacotah languages may be 
said, at least, to interpose no obstacle in the way of a Peninsular 
origin. The absence of true gender, and a distinction between nouns 
as animates and inanimates ; the formation of the genitive by simple 
prefix to the nominative, with or without the third personal pro- 
noun ; the use of pronominal prefixes, and of post positions; the 
place of the regimen before the governing verb, are all in favour of 
