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It will be observed that the main difference between the last two 

 schemes lies in the first person plural; the first scheme is entirely 

 peculiar in the first person singular and third person. The first person 

 plural possessive sufiix (-da'm) resembles the endings of the sub- 

 jective future of the same person (-iga'm, -anaga'm) in the falling 

 accent; evidently there is a primary element -a'm back of these 

 various endings which has amalgamated with other suffixes. As 

 seen from the table, reflexive suffixes exist only for the third person. 

 The plural reflexive in -gwan has often reciprocal significance : 



wu'lxdagwan their own enemies ( = they are enemies) 



The suffixes of the first and second person plural may also have 

 reciprocal significance : 



vmlxda'm e^hi^¥ we are enemies (lit., our enemies we are) cf. 

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liam- (ma-) father, Mn- (jii-) mother, ~k!as- maternal grand- 

 parent, and heyan- daughter may be taken as types of the nouns 

 that form this group. ^ 



The first two of these are peculiar in that they each show a double 

 stem; the first form (ham-, Mn-) is used in the first and second 

 persons, the second (ma-, ni-) in the third person. Despite the 

 phonetically symmetrical proportion JiaTn- : ma- = Tiin- : ni-, the two 

 words are not quite parallel in form throughout, in that Jiin- does not 

 show the characteristic -i- found in certain of the forms of ham-. 



1 Out of thirty-two terms of relationship (tabulated with first person singular, third person, and vocative 

 in American Anthropologist, n. s., vol. 9, pp. 268, 269) that were obtained, twenty-eight belong here. 



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