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employed as a personal pronoun, and that the relative who is im- 

 plied by the final inflection, overlook the inevitable inference, 

 that if the marked e stands for me in the first phrase, it must 

 stand for iliee in the second, he in the third, us in the fourth, &c. 

 As to the meaning and ofhce of the final inflections %c^, ik^ &c., 

 whatever they may, in an involuted sense, imjoly, it is quite clear, 

 by turning to the list of suffixed j^^^sonal pronouns^ and animate 

 -plurals^ that they mark the persons, I, thou, he, &c., we, ye, 

 they, &c. 



Take, for example, minivaindumeigoivaud, "he (who) makes 

 them happy." Of this compound, minwaindum, as before shown, 

 signifies "he makes happy." But as the verb is in the singular 

 number, it implies that but one person is made happy; and the 

 suffixed personal pronouns singular, mark the distinctions be- 

 tween me, thee, and he, or him. 



Minwaindum-e-ig is the verb plural, and implies that several 

 persons are made happy ; and, in like manner, the suffixed per- 

 sonal pronouns plural, mark the distinctions between we, ye, 

 they, &c.; for it is a rule of the language, that a strict concord- 

 ance must exist between the number of the verb and the number 

 of the pronoun. The termination of the verb consequently 

 always indicates whether there be one or many objects to which 

 its energy is directed. And as animate verbs can be applied 

 only to animate objects, the numerical inflections of the verb are 

 understood to mark the number of persons. But this number is 

 indiscriminate, and leaves the sense vague until the pronominal 

 suffixes are superadded. Those who, therefore, contend for the 

 sense of the relative pronoun " who" being given in the last-men- 

 tioned phrase, and all phrases similarly formed by a succeda- 

 neum, contend for something like the following form of trans- 

 lation : " He makes them happy — him !" or " Him — he (meaning 

 ' who') makes them happy." 



The equivalent for ivhat, is v:aygonain. 



What do you want ? AVaygonain wau iauyun ? ' 



What have you lost? Waygonain kau wonetoyun? 



What do you look for? Waygonain nain dahwau bundahmun? 



What is this ? Waygonain ewinain maundun ? 



What will you have ? Waygonain kad iauyun ? 



What detained you? Waygonain kau oon dahme egoyun ? 



What are you making ? Waygonain wayzhetoyun ? 



What have you there ? Waygonain e-mau iauyun ? 



