BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES CHUKCHEE 707 



§ § 4z5-o0, Fortn in -in 



§ 45. GENERAL REMARKS 



A considerable number of forms ending in -in occur, which are 

 seminominal in character. I have found — 



Chukehee Koryak Kamchadal 



-in -in -in possessive 



-Icin -Iciu -in, -n pertaining- to 



-Ihi -la^n measure of a 



quality 

 ni — qin ni — 'qin quality of 



ge — lin ga — li/i possessor of 



All of these form their plural and post-positional forms by adding 

 the vowel e before the affix added to -m. For example: 



Chukehee Koryak Kam. 



Absolute nime'lqm nima'J/jin 



Subjective nirnelqine'ta nimahjma'ta 



Locative nnne'lqi-nek iirma'lqhiak 



Plural-Dual nnne'lqinet ^ nima'lqivat 



Plural nima'lqinaw 



On the whole, forms of this type with post-positions are rare. 

 mi'nkri-va'lit ple'lcit tegge'nu 7une'igigitf Nime' ymqinet mei'- 

 mitinet. How do you want your boots? I want large ones 

 {mi'nkri how; va'lit being, pi. (§ .54) ; ple'lcit boots pi. ; teggen 

 desire; -u serving for; ni- prefix of nominalized verb [§ 73]; 

 -nelg to have; -git thou; n/ — qinet nominalized form of verb, 

 pi.; me'ifi large, in- 1st per. exhortative; eimit to take; 

 -net [I] — them, exhortative) 



To the question ra^-ne'lha gerkuLin? With what kind of skins has 



it been bought? {req what; ne'lhin skin; -a instrumental; ge — lin 



nominalized verb [§ 73]; -rkur to bu}') one may answer — 



nitenqine'td with good ones {ni — qin nominalized verb; ni — 

 qinetd instrumental of this form; ten good); 



but it is better to avoid the nominalized form with suffix, and to say, 

 ten-ne'lhd with a good skin 



em-te'n'nila nilce'i^ the sportful people teased him {em- mere; 

 te'n'nila subjective form of te'n'nilin sportful [the correspond- 

 ing verb with the suffix -en is ten'ne' urkin to laugh]; nike'i^ 

 indefinite pronominal verb, nike^rkin to do something) 



1 Men's pronunciation nime'lqeet. 



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