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HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES CHUKCHEE 



837 



muLi blood ^am<?^d'jt?/Zew full of dried blood 



68.2 

 Also: 



tsl sick 

 Wis winter 



To this group may be added, as also differing in regard to the spe- 

 cific character of the term : 



tE'Hrgin disease 133.7 

 tii^'dE cold 



lu^'rkin he sees 



lele'lhin mitten 



li'glig agg 



velo'lliin ear 



vilu'ptirkin he marks the ear 

 (of the reindeer) 



tu^-tu'mgin or lu^-tu'mgin old 

 acquaintance ( = seeing com- 

 panion) 



te-inmgi' Linin glove ( = mitten 

 hand) 



(tigi'-ttim egg-shell ( = egg- 

 bone) 



vilu'-ttim or vltu'-ttim auricu- 

 lar bone 



evitu'ptiki (reindeer) without 

 ear-mark 



Attention may also be called to the relation between the nominal 

 endings -thin and -Ihin, which have been treated in §§52, 53, and which 

 may also be considered from this point of view, -Ihm being used in 

 nouns with indefinite meaning, -thiii in those indicating particular 

 representation of the class of object. 



In other cases the forms in I and t, while related, do not differ in 

 their more or less specific character, but in other ways: 



qulile'erJcin he cries 



gemle'lin it is broken 

 umi'lin dHo'net the whole day 



afiqa'li-ra'mkin maritime peo- 

 ple 



quHte'erkin he shouts, makes a 

 noise 



gemte'tkuUn broken to pieces 



umi' ci-to' fiet or umi't-a^to'nU 

 a long time 



afiqa' ci-raJ mkin reindeer-breed- 

 ers who come in summer to 

 the seashore 



tine'erkm he yearns for some- 

 thing 



U'fiilin the hearty one, avenger 

 (from U'filifb heart, Unile'er- 

 hin he avenges) 



§§123-124. Numerals 



§ 123 * Introductory Reniarhs 



The system of numbers is derived from manual concepts. Even 



the expression to count really means to finger (Chukchee ri'lhirkin^ 



Kor. Kam. yiJn/kin, recounts [from stem rilh-, Kor. Kam. yiln, fin- 



§123 



