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The word Dy, wliicli supplies this declension, is derived from 

 Indyidm mine, jpron. an. — a derivative form of the word, which is, 

 however, exclusively restricted, in its meaning, to the dog. If 

 the expression Nin Dy or N'' Dy, is sometimes applied to the 

 horse, it is because it is thereby intended to call bim, my dog, 

 from his being in a state of servitude similar to that of tbe dog. 

 It must be borne in mind, as connected with, tliis subject, that 

 the doo-, in high northern latitudes, and even as far soutb as 42 

 degrees, is both a beast of draught and of burden. He is com- 

 pelled during the winter season to draw tlie odcihan, or Indian 

 sleigb ; and sometimes to support the burden upon his back, by 

 means of a kind of drag constructed of slender poles. 



A review of the facts whicb have been- brought together 

 respecting the substantive, will show that the separable or inse- 

 parable pronouns under the form of prefixes, are throughout re- 

 quired. It will also indicate, that the inflections of the first and 

 second persons whicb occupy the place of possessives, and those 

 of the third person, resembling objectives, pertain to words, which 

 are either primitives, or denote but a single object, as nioose^fire. 

 There is, however, another class of substantives, or substantive 

 expressions, and an extensive class — for it embraces a great por- 

 tion of the compound descriptive terms — in the use of which no 

 pronominal prefixes are required. The distinctions of person are, 

 exclusively, supplied by pronominal suffixes. Of this character 

 are the words descriptive of country, place of dwelling, field of 

 battle, place of employment, &c. The following example will 

 furnish the inflections applicable to this entire class of words : — 



Aindad : Home, or place of dwelling. 



S. singular. 



Ainda-j'an. My home. 



Ainda-yun. Thy home. 



Ainda-d. His home. 



Ainda-yang. Our home, (ex.) 



Ainda-yung. Our home, (in.) 



Ainda-yaig. Your home. 



Ainda-wad. Their home. 



