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Huron Language. 189 



The thiH part of gramiuar— Of Syntax. 



The Huroiis sometime? add the particle de to substantives, 

 which answers to the French de or di(, as, iJe/ib(uCoNnen/ia 

 I carry wiieat ; clumd'anneiiha — 1 bring back wheat ; 

 tenaciaid'otinenha — I have no wheat ; findeiad'oentsa — it is 

 fine tobacco ; o^arhied^oema — it is strong tobacco. 



Two substantives joined together are thus expressed, 

 liechonhorih'iavan — Hechon's book, as if it were, Hechon 

 has that book in his power, for van, signifies the master, 

 flrihna — tlie book, Hechon hondaofi — Hechon's house or 

 rather Hechon lives there. 



The materials of which any thing is composed of Is thus 

 rendered, ju^riotahaotenanywncJda — stone house, the same 

 that is of stone ; haoten, which is ohvistahaotencandahia — 

 iron knife, or olmista afiseMen — a metal flagon, from 

 flseta — bottle. 



The place from whence any thing is brought, as, French 

 bread, an^)ion/iakehao?t findataiotnli. An cmnien — blanket ; 

 ganmeneliaun^cnonhnra. Aj)pellatives are thus expressed 

 hatc/mioit^en/taA/irj/undn^er'uti — the captain of the French, 

 the French have him as captain — Hechon's nephew, 

 hec/ton/ianen/ttfUten — Hechon's brother — This Hechon and 

 he are brothers ; hechon Inataxeu — the enemies of the 

 French, the same French and they fight ; utin'nion' 

 ^enhdhhontrioch. 



National names are formed from the proper name of the 

 nation by adding r^onnon, as from annonta^eonnujitacrun- 

 iwn a Gaiu^hcn, GaioMenroniinn. Verbals as love, fenr, &c. 

 art' expressed by the infinitive, as God hates sin, diti/io- 

 chicnsennik^itrihHaiilnniJ, or by the impLisoiial, as diufiu- 

 rhii-nst-nnih d'nn/iMiim/rrarh — (Jod hales thai we sin, or by 

 liic personal, di^hochiaiwutUlc d'uvucihbundcrach — God 



