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HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 



1009 



Examples: 



^ tgllla weather 

 "^ eplio intestines 

 ^ apne woman 

 *^.taleph arm 

 ^ aten name 

 ^uyapak stone 

 '' apart father 

 ^ aggut man 



' iimn oar 

 ^'^ nunak two lands (Petitot 



XLIX) 

 " atekpeph two names (i^ /(7., L) 

 ^^tupaphp two tents {ihid., 



XLIX) 

 ^^?iu«aHands; tupkpeU tents; 



«m*^ skins; •mJZ'm^ days 



Singular 



Bar 



1 !/H?) 



,'3 



Alaska (see 

 num) . 



Examples: 

 ^ sla weather 

 ■^ irkklu evil 

 ^ inglu half 



^s;^^ [^n^-'J its bank or edge 

 *puydJc smoke l:~[_q\( 

 ^ ingvik mountain 

 ^ippun native spoon or ladle 

 ^cha'nasun native knife 

 ^ slin whetstone 

 '^ sndk the banks (dual); cf. also 



Dual 



]^'{v^^.)c/l 



Plural 



t''{n'') 



^ lydrohitung, see Barnum 281- 



282 

 ^ c/dvoaql'a my upper front 



teeth (Barnum 6); cf. the 



verb forms 

 ^^nunat village (lands) 

 '^^ingrit mountains 

 " n occurs as plural sign only 



in the numerals: stamen 



four, etc. (Barnum 219) 



Barnum 283 



In the Greenland dialects the formation of the plural of nouns is 

 often accompanied by change of stress: e. g., 



a'meq a skin pi. 'ammit 



The dual form is much less used than the plural ; and I think a great 

 many nouns are never used in the dual, this form being replaced by 

 the plural. On the other hand, there are some few words that occur 

 only in the dual form: e. g., 



mai'Lul' two; marLoyyuik two small ones 



jL>ussooh the claw of a craj^lish; the thumb and the forefinger 



issaa% goggles 



The following words are collective plurals: 



attdt a dung-hill ndssdt the stomach 



norm.t ligature qa'tixxdt the back (of man or 



iiLLut a bird's nest (especially animal) 



the down in the nest) 



arssai'nerlt aurora borealis 

 paa^'tlt a paddle 

 nuFpit a bird-dart 



44877°— Bull. 40, pt 1—10 64 



assaaH the hand ( < assaJc a fin 



ger) 

 umidt the boat rowed by women 



( < umiaq the empty boat) 



§17 



