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ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



You and your, puddrr (with a point of the finger at the person 



indicated). 

 He and his, puddrr (without the point). 



It will thus be seen that just as the Samoyeds use no ordinal numbers, 

 so they use no possessive pronouns (properly so called). Instead of 

 this, the personal pronoun, when used as the possessive, has the function 

 in some, if not in all, cases of changing the word it agrees with. Thus, 

 ' sleigh ' is /urn, but ' my sleigh ' is mein hanbo ; ' knife ' is har, but ' my 

 knife ' is mein harbo ; ' son ' is neu, but '■ my son ' is mein neydbo. 



I am aware that a list of Samoyed words is given in Rae's Land of 

 the North Wind. The reader can compare my list with his. I have 

 deliberately forborne from looking at that list myself, because I did 

 not want to confuse my recollections of sound. It is very possible that 

 other writers have been more etymologically correct, but this I can 

 promise my naturalist friend, that if he can pronounce the words as I 

 think my spelling will enable him to do, then the Samoyeds will under- 

 stand him ; and this in a language where a shade of difference means 

 sense or nonsense. Of course there are different dialects, but the words 

 I learnt on Kolguev were always understood by the Samoyeds I met 

 with west from the Petchora. 



SOME COMMON SAMOYED WORDS FOR FUTURE 



TRAVELLERS. 



Animals. 



Walrus, diiilieh. 

 Polar bear, hevdil. 

 Fox (red), tchubrnia. 

 Fox (blue), nohb. 

 Dog, wenqubh. • 



Soup, yah. 

 Salt, slrr. 

 Bread, rieska. 

 Flour ytak. 



Food. 



Blue-bottle fly, dorndaftsa. 

 Reindeer fly, pUiiih. 

 Musquito, niatunk. 

 Seal, sink. 

 Grey seal, zei-itz. 



Dough, gobsah. 

 Goose-fat, yiibtaw yoorr. 

 Bread made with fat, ani-du- 

 dah. 



