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PHILOLOGY. 



The possessive or suffixed pronouns are -arh, my ; -&m, thy or you ; -en, his, her, its ; 

 erro, our ; -air/i or -a(rh, their. The following examples of their use are given : 



[It is probable that the suffix of the second person singular is properly, as in Tarawan, 

 Amu, and that of the plural, ami ; the concluding vowels of both being omitted, there 

 would be no distinction between them.] 



In or ian signifies this or that, as, enno ik in, a good fish this. Menuiu is also given 

 for this. Aitan or aitani ? who or what ? as, aitani manuiu 1 what is this ? Mirutdani, 

 what? what is it? 



The following vocabulary is principally from that of Mr. Bingham. A few words 

 have been added from those given in the narrative of the two seamen ; these have the 

 English orthography, which they employ, added in parentheses. 



Adze (iron) mal. 



Ankle, kuiletinen. 



Arm, hand, ban. 



Asleep, medjurh, medurh. 



Awake, rmt. 



Axe, djagalil. 



Back, ettigan. 



Bad, nana. 



Bad, padjU. 



Basket, yip. 



Beautiful, excellent, emman. 



Belly, giun. 



Bird, pah-o or pao. 



Blanket, kUd (cawd). 



Bottle, bucket, &c., btikkah. 



Boy, son, lodrik. 



Breadfruit, mah. 



Brother, elder, djen (see sister). 



" younger, djatan. 

 Build, ei. 



Bury, k&libuni (collyboony). 

 Cannon, bake. 



Canoe, boat, ship, waa or ivah. 

 Carve, hew, djikidjik (jick-e-jick). 

 Cask, tubitOb. 



Chief, tamim (tammoori), uroit. 

 Chin, djimmimyin, djimmtmyid, djim- 



miniyirh (qu. djimmi, father, ni, of, 



yin, teeth). 



Cloud (or squall), ktirrH. 

 Cocoa-nut, young, ni. 



" ripe, waini. 



* In the list of words appended to the Narrative of Lay and Hussey, " my father," is written gimmah 

 (English orthog.) and " my mother" ginnah. 



