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The Prosecutive Case Possessively Inflected 

 slut ear; siiita'a his ear; siiitii)ut through an ear. 



All the other endiug-s beginning with n are joined to the noun in 

 the same manner as -?ie. 



Other examples: 



•ne. 



i'serpiane at the entrance {iserFll') of it {a) 



wniap ataane of the umiak, in {iie) the under-space {ata) of it («)= 



under the umiak 

 qilaa^p kiLhiyane of the sky, in (weHhe border {klLLil') of it {a)= 



on the horizon 

 qaFnne on the top.(^a>?) of me 



-nut, 



iLLuminut iserpoq he goes into {nut) his {me) house {illo) 

 kiLLiyanut to the border of it {a) 

 ilaminut to his or her own {me) house-mate {ila) 

 ikiyuti^nmd to my ("'«) friend or friends {ikiyut [e\) 



-nit. 



iniminit from his or its own {jnl) place, nest, etc. {hie) 

 kiLLiyanlt from the border of it (r/), especially from that time 

 noop kujataanit of the point of land {)iook), from its {a) southern 



space {kifjat[a]) = fvom the south of the point of land 

 qaqqaj) qaanit of the mountain, from its {a) top = from the top of 



the mountain 

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