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S. plural. , 



Ainda-yaa-in. My homes. 



Ainda-yun-in. Thy homes. 



Ainda-jin. His homes. 



Ainda-yang-in. Our homes, (ex.) 



Ainda-yung-in. Our homes, (in.) 



Ainda-yaig-in. Your homes. 



Ainda-wadjin. Their homes. 



By these examples, it is perceived that the final d in ainddd is 

 not essential to its primitive meaning ; and that the place of the 

 pronoun is, in respect to this word, invariably a snffix. Ainddd 

 means, truly, not home, but his home. The plural is formed by 

 the inflection in^ except in the third person, where the sound of d 

 sinks in j. 



Inquiry 2. 



Further remarks on the substantive — Local, diminutive, derogative, and tensal in- 

 flections — Mode in which the latter are employed to denote the disease of indi- 

 viduals, and to indicate the past and future seasons — Restricted or sexual terms 

 — Conversion of the substantive into a verb, and the reciprocal character of the 

 verb by which it is converted into a substantive — Derivative and compound sub- 

 stantives — Summary of the properties of this part of speech. 



In the view which has been taken of the substantive in the 

 preceding Inquiry, it has been deemed proper to exclude several 

 topics, which, from their peculiarities, it was believed could be 

 more satisfactorily discussed in a separate form. Of this charac- 

 ter are those modifications of the substantive by which locality, 

 diminution, a defective quality, and the past tense are expressed ; 

 by which various adjective and adverbial significations are given ; 

 and, finally, the substantives themselves converted into verbs. 

 Such are also the mode of indicating the masculine and feminine 

 (both merged, as we have shown, in the animate class), and those 

 words which are of a strictly sexual character, or are restricted in 

 their use either to males or females, Not less interesting is the 

 manner of forming derivatives, and of conferring upon the de- 

 rivatives so formed o, personality^ distinguished as either animate 

 or inanimate, at the option of the speaker. 



