BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES CHUKCHEE 719 



e'rmecin the strong man (stem §rme) 

 no'cin the poor man (stem no) 

 This ending has oblique cases: 

 ya^ce'pu qdcvi'gin timqxik cut off some rawer part {ya^ raw; -epu 



from; qd-cvi-gin [stem cvi] to cut [§ 67]; di'mqulc some) 

 armace'ti to the strong man 

 armace'pu from the strong man 

 The ending appears also in composition without formative endings. 



I'npic-akkai'pu from the elder son {np old; eTcke son) 

 The subjective form of the third person pronoun combined with the 

 suffix -cm or va'lin (Kor. Kam. -ca^n or i'tala^n) expresses our 

 superlative. 



Ena'n rnai'nicin (Kor. Kam. ina'n-mai'nica^n) 1 

 Ena'n-7na'yi7}Jcu-wa'Iin (Kor. Kam. ina'n-ma'yinkin~\the largest one 

 i'fdla^n) \ 



-cei (Kamchadal) expresses the emphatic comparative form of the 

 adjective, and replaces the ending -lace. As in Chukchee and 

 Koryak, the object of comparison is expressed in the locative 

 form. 



Tci'rnina Jcini'-».Tc cinincei' I am prettier than you (kimma' I; 

 Tcinl'nlc on thee; cini'nlax pretty) 



Pronouns (§§ 56-60). 

 § 56*. Personal JPronouns 



The personal pronouns are — 



Chukchee Kor. Kam. Kamchadal 



giimvia, gilfn Jci'mma 



gi'ssa,^ gi Tci'ja 



a'nmc Ena! 



inu'yi (dual) mu'ja 

 m,u'yu (plural) 



{tu'yi (dual) tu'ja 



ve . . . tur't W / / 1 i\ 



[tuyu (plural) 



, , [a'cci (dual) itx 



they . . E rri w.v / , ^ 



•^ [a ecu (plural) 



From these absolute forms, forms analogous to those of the noun are 



derived. The locative, subjective, and possessive are derived from the 



stems; while the forms in -gti., -ipu., of Chukchee, require the suffix 



ka after the pronominal stem. Thus we find the following forms: 



'The Koryak of Paren has gitca, although ordinarily tc is characteristic of Kamenskoye, s« of 

 Paren. 



2 The particle BLo'n is also used in the absolute form of the pronoun. Otherwise its meaning is 

 generally weakly concessive, like that of German dock. 



§56 



