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Huron Language. 191 



Substantives which arc not compounded in number, 

 gender, and person, agree with their adjective, atieronkna 

 — robust; if it adheres to the substantive hern' dialiaon — a 

 male, you say hatie'ronkaa, with the initial h, M'hich is 

 the mark of the third person masculine ; but if the word 

 onuheUien be the subject of the predicate, you say atieronk^a 

 without h, because it is the third person singular feminine. 

 If you wish to express in Huron, thou art a strong woman, 

 you say chiatieronkna dc sannhetien, the substantive agree- 

 ing with the adjective as to person, not as to paradigma. 

 C/iiatieroiikva de chion^ae — thou art a strong man. 



Note. — That when with one single substantive capable 

 of coujposition, are joined two words, of which the one is 

 an adjective, the other a verb, that it is compounded with 

 both separately, as, I have found a fine hut, the word 

 annouchia — hut, is twice used and joined both to the verb 

 orendi — to find, and ^avasti — fine ; thus, /mn'onc/iia vasd 

 jann'onchiorendi. Thus, thou hast a fine knife — ^andahia- 

 vt^sti smidiihioi. 



NoTK 2o. — That when a substantive cannot enter into 

 composition with an adjective which is applied to itself, 

 often the generic name of the same substantive is put with 

 that a<ljectivc ; as, a fine oak — jtr'oniasa'sli ^er(//ii, where 

 wc take the name of the kind, and jironta — a tree, ^\hich 

 we join with /imsti — fine, and then we add ^ero'fie — oak. 

 Thus, an ugly child — liaatachen d'achiaha, or, jnatn — 

 animal, is joined with ,acheii — ngly, because ailiialiu — 

 infant, i." not compounded. 



Somi* things are to be observed in the composition of a 

 mibstantive with adjectives and verbs. 



lo. — The !iub>tautive always goc^ before. 



2o. — Tlie lait vo^vel of a substantive perishes, and the 



