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BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY 



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-ra is the form of the suffix of the tirst person singular my in such 

 words as end in q in the absohitive: 



erneq a son 

 qarssoq arrow 



ernera mj son 

 arnara my mother 

 qarssora my arrow 



All words ending in a vowel add ya ; e, g. , Illoija my house. 

 -pa is added to the vocalic stem of words ending in I' in the 

 absolutiv^e: 



panik daughter 



paniija ni}^ daughter 



Words ending in t in the absolutive form their first person and 

 some of the other personal cases on a longer stem ending in -te : 



ay id man 



ayuteya my father 



A remarkable fact is the constant identit}^ of the form of the 

 second person singular possessor, singular object possessed, absolu- 

 tive {iLLut THY house) and of the plural form of the word {iLLut 

 houses). There is probably no exception to this rule. Since many 

 words form irregular plurals, either because of retention of the ter- 

 minal consonant of the singular or owing to internal changes of their 

 stems (cf. § 22), the same irregularity also appears in their second 

 person singular forms: 



taleq arm 

 talia his arm 



tahhlt thy a.rm = taLLit arms 



§28. IRREGULAR POSSESSIVE INFLECTION 



Following are some deviations from the typical paradigm given 

 above: 



(a) Many words ending in e form their third person possessives ex- 

 actly as if they were vocalic ^/-stenis (of. § 1.5 ^tiin). 



ise I'ise] or [i'.se] eye. 



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