844 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
“Tt is noticeable, for example, that in a// the triple persons the 
attached elements, Kollik, appear ; while in the singular and dual 
there is no such agreement of ending. Is there any way of dis- 
covering an independent ko/ (/ik) in an appreciable sense of its 
own? Or is it always and only pronominal ? 
“Tf in English we say ‘ We do,’ ‘ We-two-do,’ ‘ We-three-do,’ the 
step to agelutination is but a small one. Did the Australian 
simply do ‘the same and stop at ‘three,’ because it had no further 
numerals ? 
“Thus you give the dual as containing bul; but bul is the 
ordinary Australian for two, or at least is contained in the word 
for two. 
“Similarly I find that kuliba and guliba are Australian for 
three, and I should say that ko/(/ik) is an appearance of three in 
your compounds.” 
As regards answering Professor Tucker’s question—Whether 
the elements expressing “triple number are really affixed or merely 
juxtaposed ?—Tuckfield’s MS. furnishes no helpful assistance. 
The answer must, therefore, be drawn from the pronouns them- 
selves. But if we inspect the six examples of triple pronouns, 
we will find that the said elements appear to be infixes, placed 
between the two syllables of the word bangik. For example, 
insert etuk-koll between the two parts of the word, and we have 
bang-etuk-kol-lik—we ; prefix ong to etuk-koll, and by the same 
process we get bang-ong-etuk-kollik—ours. Interposing wd koll 
gives bang-ud-kollik—you ; prefixing ong to ud-koll makes bang- 
ong-ud-kol-lik—yours. Incorporating tan-a-koll forms bang-tan- 
a-kol-lik—they ; and prefixing a@ to tan-a-koll gives bang a tan a 
kol lik—theirs. 
As a similar formation also occurs in five examples of the 
possessive cases, Singular and dual, and also in the plural, it seems 
quite safe to conclude that in the pronouns of triple number “the 
elements expressing that notion” are neither affixed nor juxta- 
posed, but incorporated.* 
Passing to the second question, we may reasonably confine our 
attention to kol. The same combination of letters forms the first 
syllable in the names of seven birds—koling-ar, parrot ; kol-ka- 
wil, predatory bird, &e. ; but Tuckfield fur nishes no Wod-dow-ro, 
Dantgur t, or Kolijon word showing ol used as a numeral. <As a 
matter of fact, it could not occur in Wod-dow-ro, Dantgurt, or 
Kolijon as the root syllable of three—none of these dialects had 
such a numeral ; in each, three was expressed by two and one. 
* “Words are formed by means of swufixes alone, the formative element being placed 
always at the end of the word.”—Abel Hovelacque, Science of Language ; Australian 
Languages, p. 68. 
