4:64: APPEXDIX. 



yun^ as the liarraony of tlie word to whicli it is suffixed may 

 require. But not the slightest change is thereby made in its 

 meaning. 



Wabojeeg ogi meegan-an nadowaisi-wun. 



Wixbojeeg fought his enemies. L.* A¥. he did fight them, his enemy, or enemies. 



sagi-an inini-wun. 



He, or she, loves a man. L. He, or she, loves him-man, or men. 



Kigo-yun Tvaindji pimmadizziwad. 



They subsist on fish. L. Fish or fishes, they upon them, they live, 



Ontwa sagian odi-yun. 



Ontwa loves his dog. L. 0. he loves him, his dog, or dogs. 



In these sentences, the letters iv and y are introduced before 

 the inflection ?m, merely for euphony's sake, and to enable the 

 speaker to utter the final vowel of the substantive, and the in- 

 flective vowel, without placing both under the accent. It is to 

 be remarked in these examples, that the verb has a corresponding 

 inflection with the noun, indicated by the final consonant w, as in 

 sagid-n, objective of the verb to love. This is merely a modifica- 

 tion of z«2, where it is requisite to employ it after broad a {au:), 

 and it is applicable to nouns as well as verbs whenever they end 

 in that sound. Thus, in the phrase, " He saw a chief," wd- 

 humd-n gimd-n, both noun and verb terminate in n. It is im- 

 material to the sense, which precedes. And this leads to the 

 conclusion, which we are in some measure compelled to state in 

 anticipation of our remarks on the verb : That verbs must not 

 only agree with their nominatives in number, person, and gender 

 (we use the latter term for want of a more appropriate one), but 

 also with their objectives. Hence, the objective sign n in the 

 above examples. Sometimes this sign is removed from the end- 

 ing of the verb, to make room for the plural of the nominative 

 person, and is subjoined to the latter. Thus, 



sagia(wa)n. 



They love them (him or them). 



In this phrase, the interposed syllable (wd) is, apparently, the 

 plural — it is a reflective plural — of he — the latter being indicated, 

 as usual, by the sign 0. It has been observed, above, that the 

 deficiency in number, in the third person, is sometimes supplied 

 "by numerical inflections in the relative words of the sentence," 

 and this interposed particle (ted) afibrds an instance in point. 



* L. for literally. 



