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gape'lalen he was leaving him, or he was left 

 genlete'n-muri he was the one who took us away 74.23 

 geniggewgu'ulinet he was the one who awakened them 12.12 



j Examples, Koryak: 



! (a) nenaainawnwo' qen she was the one who called him Kor. 74.29 

 nenanunvo' qenau she was the one who ate them Kor. 59.9 

 ninataiJcinvo' qenau she was the one who made them Kor. 59.5 

 nassi' Two-gum they are the ones who are untying me Kor. 39.3 

 nenemeye'ye-ge art thou the one who is seeking it? Kor. 49.9 

 nenavo^'nvo-mu'yu we are those who find them Kor. 59.9 

 (h) gewFiivo'hnat they were the two whom he told Kor. 13.2 



ga'nmihnau they were the ones whom they had killed Kor. 12.8 

 ganta'wiikinaii-mu'yi we are the ones whom they have defiled 



Kor. 29.6 

 ganta'vntJcinaw-i-g-i thou art the one whom they have defiled 



Kor. 31.1 



§§ 75-81* Notes on Certain Verhs 



§ 75. To be, —it 



The Chukchee verbal stem -it, Kor. Kam. -it, expresses the idea 

 TO BE. In the pronounciation of men the t is lost in Chukchee in 

 intervocalic position. The women say instead of i'lrkin of the men 

 i'ti^sin. In other words with terminal t of stem they may drop it, 

 as in yilqae§sin he sleeps. 



i'lrJcin, Kor. Kam. iti'ylcin he is 



me'nki nit-turif where are you? 



mi'nlcri ni'tqinf how was he? 17.12 



It is used with the verbal noun in -ta, and with the noun in -nu (see 

 § 95, p. 784, § 103, no. 34). 



iau6iiwa'-va'rat ti'mqug vlri'td-n i'i7'kin the Reindeer Chukchee 



people are partly self-destroying 

 Ta'rvnibhit urn em-vl^'td ni'tqlnet the Russians are just dying 

 len-qami'tvata i'tyi^ he could not eat 80.7 

 aqami'tvaka qi'tyitik don't ye eat (of it) 64.19 

 e'rmu tl'tyd^lc I was a chief (literally, I was what serves as a chief) 

 gai'niicils trl'tyd^ 1 am going to be rich 

 qaremma'nB rl'tyd^ thou shalt not be it 23.6 

 Ij'e-narau't'dB mini'n7nik {<7nin-it-7nilc) let us really try to get 



wives 57.1 

 ena'nmitu i'tkdl-i-uin I am not a murderer 24.8 



§75 



