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onsmatatronnandi ; extreme unction — /cuafafiatoreen/ion ; 

 order — ataten di^oii'a'chondij (as if, d'-onna^ontri honten 



fihaehent d'ahachato^eti,) marriage atatendiatanki ; 



communion — aiataLvarisfiannotixai. 



An indeterminate person with a relation is expressed 

 always by a cori'esponding one, as, stontatierha da^ oriha- 

 anderashon — that which was done to sinners. 



The word vten joined to a substantive signifies the 

 manner, quality or material of a thing, as tahtichiaMen — 

 how art thou made ? Teonnianniti chiaUten, or, chiaaen- 

 kuten—'I do not approve of your manner of acting or 

 speaking. Taotenti afirihvten desariliHa^an — How is your 

 book made. O^hisia aaseinten — a bottle made of metal. 



60. — The Hurons express their conception with the 

 words to wish, to pray, as, I beseech you to pray to God 

 for me, i^endiQu Snde di^erheahon, atren da enhas — God 

 has made me to honor him. Ondehveridedie stahaiatichieUf 

 or, dehaiatichlai, aha^echien daen. 



60. — A noun is of the masculine gender, when it begins 

 with h, t, 0, 8(c. as, tichion — a star, ^entenha nGia — the 

 morning star ; but when it begins with a. e. i. o. or g. it 

 is of the feminine gender, as, i^ar — the sun ; endiskara — 

 turning on the leg, (piroutte,) onnheiien — a wife j ^andicha 

 — a star. 



Those which are expressed by words or rather by 

 persons indeterminate, are made determinate only by 

 joining particles to them, as, I have seen a horse, I have 

 seen horses, a^ee^en ao chiatens ^a^een ondo torotiton d'a^- 

 ochiatens 



7o. — Where a determinate person is joined to determinate 

 words it is to be considered as the marks of their dual or 

 plural number, as, she has met Peter — aQintrahan ; she 



