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HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 



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suna WHAT, plural soot [su:t\ or \sY:t] (M. cuna^ plural cuvlt)\ 

 swnut TO WHAT OR WHERE {sume where) 



The Alaskan cka \cci\, plural chat (Barnum SO), which is perhaps 

 related to the Greenlandic suna what thing, is presented b}'^ Bar- 

 num as having both local and possessive inflection; but in Greenlandic 

 these words have no possessive inflection. 



Combination of first and second persons and local declension is seen 

 in the personal pronouns: 



iiwaya I; plural mcaijut we; utca^nne at me, ud^ttlnne at us; 



ud^nnut to me, udHtinnut to us; ud^ttat like me 

 IllU thou; plural ili'^sse or i'llsse [ilisse] you: Ul/vnut to thee, 



ili^ssinmit to j^'ou; il'ittut like you, etc. 



§ 47. Words SiffiiifuhKj ALOXE, whole, all 



The following' three nouns, signifying- the abstract concept alone, 

 WHOLE, ALL, in relation to persons or things, receive exclusively rela- 

 tive possessive endings, aside from the third person singular. They 

 remind us of the inflection of modes x and xi of the verbs. 



§ 48. Wanierals 



The distribution of the Eskimo numerals ^ may be symbolized in this 

 manner: 



12345 II 2345 (=1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) 

 III 2 3 4 6 IV 2 3 4 5 ( = 11 12 13 14 15 10 17 18 19 20) 



The word for 20 is inuJc naa^'Loijo a man brought to an end, all 

 his fingers (or hands, I and II) and toes (or feet. III and IV) being- 

 counted. 



iThalbitzer V (1908), 1-25. 



§§ 47,48 



