BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES — CHUKCHEE 709 



nay,s'qa'tcininen Eza' the woman's father 85.22 



ne'eJclcin ya'nfa ygrg'ni daughter's separate sleeping-room 28.3 



rU'ekkin to'tcot the daughter's bag pillow 29.4 



oralweLen qa'mqa-tE'tirqin man's every source of ilhiess 24,3 



Tce'le-ne'us'Qdtin Ice'rker the combination-suit of the kele-woman 



85.33 

 qla'ulqaihi i'rin the man's suit 85.35 

 ninqa'yin evi'rin the child's clothes 25.8 

 Kidiirkilin e'TciTc Ku'urkil's son 79.23 

 Tno'tirginen Tno'tirgin's 120.16 

 Umqdqdi'in U'mqaqai's 63.12 



Koryak: 



tanii' n^i-qla' widen nawa'Tcak an artisan's daughter Kor. 24.10 

 awa' ni-fia! win nawa'lcak the daughter of a seamstress Kor. 25.2 

 tu'mgmau Tcawa'ssoiku other people's wallets Kor. 46.1 

 qo'yen gitca'lnin reindeer-leg Kor. 53.3 



Proper names form their possessives of this type also with the suf- 

 fix -[i)n, especiall}^ when the terminal sound of the stem is a vowel. 



A'nna (a name) A'nnan belonging to A'nna 



Qutu'wgi (a name) Qutu'wgin belonging to Qutu'wgi 

 Aina7iwa't (a name) Ainanwa'tin and Ainanica' ten belonging 

 Upe'nken belonging to Aina'nwat. 



to Upenke R72.13 

 Niro'nen belonging 

 to T^iro'n R377, 

 141 title. 

 In Koryak the suffix — /», characteristic for the postpositional 

 forms of proper names, is sometimes inserted before the possessive 

 suffix — in. 

 Amamqu'tinin na'witgat Ememqut's woman Kor. 45.1. 

 Quyqinn'aqu'nin flawa'lcak Brig Raven's daughter Kor. 76.14 



The plural takes the regular plural ending -et (Kor. Kam. -at dual, 

 -au plural, Kamchadal -e'^n instead of -in) 



e'Tckinet those of the son (Kor. Kam. a'Tckinat dual, a'lckinau pi.) 



(Kamchadal i'cxe^n those of the father) 

 Often, however, the singular is used instead of the plural. 

 The possessive forms of proper names have no plural. 

 The possessive pronoun is evidently based on this suffix. It has, 

 however, somewhat irregular forms. 



