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APPENDIX. 



N' debaindaum-in, 

 Ke debaindaum-in, 

 Ke debaindaun-ewau, 

 debaindaun-ewau, 



We own it. (ex.) 

 We own it. (in.) 

 Ye own it. 

 Tliey own it. 



These examples are cited as exhibiting the manner in which 

 the prefixed and preformative pronouns are employed, both in 

 their full and contracted forms. To denote possession, nouns 

 specifying the things possessed are required ; and, what would 

 not be anticipated had not full examples of this species of declen- 

 sion been given in another j)lace, the purposes of distinction are 

 not affected by a simple change of the pronoun, as / to mine^ &c., 

 but by a subformative inflection of the noun^ which is thus made 

 to have a reflective operation upon the pronoun speaker. It is 

 believed that sufficient examples of this rule, in all the modifica- 

 tions of inflection, have been given under the head of the sub- 

 stantive. But as the substantives employed to elicit these modi- 

 fications were exclusively specific in their meaning, it may be 

 proper here, in further illustration of an important principle, to 

 present a generic substantive under their compound forms. 



I have selected for this purpose one of the primitives. lE-Au', 

 is the abstract term for matter. It is in the animate form. Its 

 inanimate correspondent is ie-ee'. These are two important roots. 

 And they are found in combination, in a very great number of 

 derivative words. It will be sufficient here, to show their con- 

 nection with the pronoun, in the production of a class of terms 

 in very general use. 



Nin dye eem, 

 Ke dye eem, 



SINGULAR. 



Mine. 



Thine. 



Inanimate Forms. 

 Possessive. - 



PLURAL. 



Nin dye eeminaun, Ours, (ex.) 



Ke dye eeminaun, Ours, (in.) 



Ke dye eemewau, Yours. 



