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Tce'nitmn boy 11.7 



Icopa'lhin walrus-blubber 12.6 {kopa'lha 14.11) 



yi'lgin month 7.2 



a^'tiin dog 135.20 {a"ttu 135.20) (Kor. a^'tta'n Kor. 48.8) 



Tceinm brown bear 78.3 (keinu 136.20) (Kor. Kam. hai'fiin) 



reLoi'nin big old carcass 136.19 



kokai'nin big kettle 33.10 



i'rin fur shirt 83.24 {i'ru 116.26) 



wu'lcwun stone (stem wukw R 3. 19) (Kor. vu'gvin) 



ni'lhin thong 41.10 (Kor. ni'lninY^ov. 40.5, 8) 



To this group belong the endings -Ihm, -ynin, -tJim^ -girgin,, 

 -yirin -lin (see § § 52; 53; 98; 1,99,8; 106, 44) 



§ 31. ABSOLUTE FORM WITH LOSS OF PHONETIC ELEMENTS 



(1) Stems ending in a vowel weaken their terminal vowel or lose it 

 entirely. Those ending in e often change it to / slightly nasalized. 



va'lE knife 15.13; 16.4; 43.7 (stem va'la) 



ri'rJci walrus 8.5 



Ice'ls an evil spirit 61.6 



du'mni buck (stem cumna) 



Tcrimi'nti three-year-old buck 117.11 



u'mki bear 110.11 



wi'ur scraping board (stem wiuri) 



e'wii small bag (stem ewidu) 



In case the loss of terminal vowel results in an inadmissible terminal 

 cluster, auxiliary vowels are introduced: 



e'kik son (stem ekke) 



e'7'im, e'rein chief (stem erme) 



ku'Jal one-eyed (stem kuwle < *k\ikle) 



hi'kil driving-reindeer, not properly broken in; (stem luwle 



<*lukle'i) 



(2) Stems ending in -7iv lose their terminal v. 



e'wgan incantation 129.18 (stem ewganv) 

 e'tin master 122.38 (stem etinv) 



(3) Stems ending in n with preceding vowel drop the terminal n or 

 at least reduce its pronunciation to a voiceless n. This occurs par- 

 ticularly in Chukchee. 



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