BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES CHUKCHEE 



NOMINAL PREDICATIVE FORM 



743 



(11) they— me 



-gum* 



-gVLtn 



1 we — thee-/o^e 



» we — him -laga^n 



la the derived modes, la occurs in the same places as in the sim- 

 ple modes, but preceding -iJcin. 



The suffixes -gi and -ga^n{l 8, 4; II 8) of this series are often con- 

 tracted to -I and -n. The former is similar to an intransitive form. 

 qenapela'e^ and qenapelai' leave me! 



In Chukchee these forms are quite rare (see p. 741) 



PREFIXES 



The second indefinite of Koryak has the prefix qu-, leu- (k- before 

 vowels) and the future endings, except that 



he, thou — me has the ending -n 



I, he — you (dual, pi.) has the ending -ntiTc 



NOMINAL FORMS 



