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HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 



1035 



D 



Simple Personal Suffixes Peculiar to Certain Parts of the System of Conjugation 



1st per. sing. 

 2d per. sing. 

 3d per. sing. 

 4th per. sing. 



1st per. pi. . 

 2d per. pi. . 



3d per. pi. . 

 4th per. pi. 



(va) 

 {tit) 

 Tfo<go 

 ne 



ta{v) 

 (se) 



vit<git 

 {tik) 



(V) IX 



Tcit, pit (q) 



[irjut) 



■O0«go) l-n,uk 



\vit (<,git),kit 

 \yik (<jifc), kik 



ink (<*«!') 



tiyut, siyid 



Vit {<git) 

 yik {<gik) 



S(lfc(<*jMfcV) 



Vik ( :*gik) 



yo{go) in -mayo, -payo, -lorjo (South Greenland -mago, -I>^9'^i -^ugo), 

 seems to be of the same origin as suh, ink, answering to the Alaskan 

 form -gkivu, -eu (Barnum 148, 142). The same may be true of -ul' in — 



atoruk use it! 

 takuwiuk do you see it ? 

 atorsiuk you use it! 



Thus the original form of this suffix may have been a single o\ but 

 between e and o a glide sound (semi-vowel) has sprung up and become 

 self -existent, changing to g, k, j, s, 7), at different stages in the history 

 of the language. 



yik, kik, probably belonged origiuall}^ to the dual, l)ut have assumed 

 a plural meaning and stand for ylt^ to avoid confusion with the second- 

 person forms ending in -yit. The initial oj of yik, yit, of course, is 

 derived from g, which sound is otherwise used in these endings instead 

 of y, except in North Greenland. 



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