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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 

 NOMINAL FORMS 



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§ 66. KAMCHADAL 



Intransitive Verb 



Person 



2d sing. 



2d pi. . 

 3d pi. . 



3d sing. 

 1st sing. 

 1st pi. . 



Past I 





—i 



k or 

 kicn 



ffc or 

 [kicin 



Subjunctive 



(a) Exhortative (6) Conditional 



\ciii^n or 

 xan — i 



\cni^n or 

 xan—i 

 [un 



\k or 



[kiiin 



\k or 

 mi7i — i 



[kicin 



\cniHi or 



K! — < 

 [un 



k!—cx 

 k! — nn 

 k.'—vn 



tk.'—k 

 nk!—k 



Impera- 

 tive 



k—xc 

 k—jcx 



The subjunctive (h) of modern Kamchadal takes in all forms the 

 terminal particle -li, which is the Russian conjunction 6m. 

 tk.'mikhi if I eat. 



The future is compounded with the terminal verb 61, (o) to 

 DESIRE, which may form modes and tenses like the others; the 

 present, with the terminal verb (or suifix) j. The third person 

 plural of this form is -jcin or ji^n. 



The numerous Kamchadal verbs ending in -I change this to -c 

 in the derived present. This occurs both in intransitive and tran- 



sitive verbs (see § 122). 

 tilJc 1 left 

 tnukllc I slept 

 tcolk I lay 



ticjTc I leave 

 tnukcjlc I sleep 

 tco'locjlc 1 lie 



iujuJc na'Tcoj I began eat-beginning; i. e., I began to eat {t- I; 

 uju to begin; -k I; nu to eat) 



iThis is the inchoative terminal verb (see p. 808, no. 63). The verbal noun never appears with- 

 out it. 



