BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES CHUKCHEE 



KORYAK 



759 



3d sing. 

 3d dual 

 3dpi. . 



1st sing. 

 2d sing. 

 1st dual 

 2d dual 

 1st pi. . 

 2d pi. . 



Prefix 



Noua 



Nominalized Verb 



(a) 



(6) 



Suffix 



-tgum 



■igi 



-muyi 



-muyu, muu, mu ' 



-tuyi 



-tuyu, tuu, tu ' 



I The contracted forms mtt and tu do not change their vowels in harmony with hard vowels of the 

 stem. 



Examples : 

 Nouns : 



1st sing. o'rguJcal-e-um I am one who has no sledge 78.6. 

 Jce'lei-(g)u7n<Jcele^-gum. I am a kele 

 qla'ul-e-um I am a man 116.32 

 2d sing, ne'us'qdt-i-gir thou art a woman 136.15. 

 ke'lei-git thou art a kele 15.11 

 1st pi. ili'Ld-mu'ri we are islanders 11.11. 

 Nominalized verbs (a) : 



3d sing, nignopitva'qen he was one who remained crouch- 

 ing 7.4. 

 nine'lqin he is one who becomes a — 8.7. 

 3d pi. nrmitva/ qenat they were those who lived in a 

 camp 13.3. 

 1st sing, ni'lqdt-i-um I am one who was there 66.36. 



naHaloi'gum<n-a^laio-i-{g)mn I defecated 76.5 

 2d sing, wu'tku nitvai'-gir you are one who stays here 7.5. 

 nine'l-i-git you are one who becomes a — 10.11. 

 1st pi. ni'pkir-muri we are those who came 11.1. 

 2d pi. ■ me'fiki ni't-turi where are you ? 12.2. 

 Nominalized verbs (6) : 



3d sing. ganto'Un he was one who had gone out 8.4. 

 ge'tkulin he was one who had spent time 7.2. 

 3d pi. gi'ulinet they were those who had said 11.11. 



gene'Linet they were those who had become — 9.4. 

 1st sing, gene'l-i-um I am the one who has become a — 17.6. 

 gehrei'-gum<g-elere-i-{g)um I was feeling dull 

 1st pi. ge'lhi-muri we were the ones to whom it happened 

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