BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES — CHUKCHEE 695 



Koryak: 



The dual of Koryak 1 has the same suffix. 



liJaJt two eyes 



qo'yat two reindeer (Chukchee qa'at reindeer) 



vai'amit two rivers {vai'amti Kor. 17.1, Chukchee ve'emit rivers) 



The plural is formed in many Koryak dialects by -u after termi- 

 nal consonants, -wgi, -vt'j (according to dialect), after terminal vowel. 



gla'wulu men Kor. 44.3 



na'witqatu women Kor. 44.2 



qai-pipi'Tcalnu little mice Kor. 25.6 



nawa'lcku daughters Kor. 27.1 



a'gnnu bags Kor. 28.5 



Icmi'nu children Kor. 44.7 



vai'amu rivers (stem vaiam) 



lila'wgi eyes 



mimlu'wgi lice Kor. 25.4 



im&anala'wge ermines Kor. 66.18 



qoygfwge reindeer (stem qoya; qoya'we Kor. 22.4) 



qapa' auw oXxerenes, (<qapay-u) K.or. 12.7 



ii'Jclcamau vessels Kor. 28.5 



lei' plan mortsirs Kor. 51.5 (kipla'wi Kor. 63.8) 



Kamchadal: 



The plural suffix of Kamchadal is -{lYn. 



u^h tree u^'hfn trees 



Icocx dog Iccxo^n dogs 



liist house Tci'sti^n houses 



Stems ending in w or ^ take the glottal stop before the terminal 

 consonant, and take no ending, but may modify the last vowel of 

 the stem. 



lul eye luH eyes 



IcEli'lan spotted seal IcEli'lfn spotted seals 



me'mil ground-seal 7ne'miH ground-seals 

 In the material collected by Dybowsky^ in southern Kamchatka, 

 t and d occur as plural endings. 



iauin ear ivut ears 



hosch dog Icosgut dogs 



uan stone uad stones 



1 SJowniki Narzeczy Ludow Kamczackich Rozprawe Widzialu filologiczuego Akademii Ume 

 jetn6sci w Krakowie, 1892, vol. xvil, pp. 107, 113, 120. 



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