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PRONOMINAL STEMS 

 A full paradigm of the personal and demonstrative pronouns has 

 been given in §§31, 32, and these need not therefore again be 

 referred to here. The interrogative pronouns ought, however, to be 

 noticed. These are homo' which, and homoni who. The interrogative 

 pronoun what is Jiesi', but, besides taking the regular nominal suf- 

 fixes, it also may take certain verbal or semiverbal suffixes. 



ADJECTIVAL STEMS 



Adjectives are of two sorts: (1) those formed from independent 

 stems, with or without reduplication; and (2) those formed from 

 verbal stems, generally with the suffix -pe. The first of these classes 

 may be divided according as to whether there is or is not any redupli- 

 cation. 



NO REDUPLICATION REDUPLICATION 



little tern large tete' 



small tiW long la'lami 



good ijalia' 



bad wasd' 



short nu'si 



old Ice'yi 

 Quite a number of adjectives belonging apparently to this first 

 class have the suffix -pe, although the stem shows no relation to any 

 verbal stem, and seems never to be used as such. These are both 

 reduplicated and unreduplicated, and include all color names. In 

 some cases, two forms exist, one with, and one without, the suffix -^e. 



NO REDUPLICATION REDUPLICATION 



healthy eto'spe weak le'lepe 



heavy woho'lpe light heJie'lcpe 



thick Jcol'lpe thin toto'pe 



short nu'spe wide da'pdape 



sour tsutsu'Tcpe 



COLOR NAMES 



black seu'seupe red la'Uakpe 



■ green titi'tpe white da'ldalpe 



NUMERALS 



The numerals belong to tliis first class of adjectival stems, and are 

 as follows up to ten: 



one su'ti six sai'tsolco 



two pe'ne seven to'pwi 



three sd'piui eight pe'ntcoye 



four tso'iji nine pe'lio 



five md'wika ten md'solco 



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