186 THE ODAHWAH INDIAN LANGUAGE. 
clearly from the following example: puizhig mitigoon ogeeshhahwahn, 
he cuts down one tree; ningodwahk mitigoon ogegeeshkahwahn, he 
cut down one hundred trees. With nouns, however, of the neuter 
gender, similarly governed, there is a distinction between the singu- 
lar and plural, for instance, ahnit, a spear, ahnit odahyaun, he has a 
spear; ahniteen odahyaunun, he has spears. Strictly speaking, verbs 
derived from nouns denote the profession or business of a person; 
thus, naubekwauneka, he builds a ship,—means also his profession or 
business is to build a ship. 
The words wn and o which frequently represent the personal and 
possessive pronouns of the third person, are likewise omitted in the 
event of an objective case of the first and second persons coming 
after a verb transitive. These appear to usurp the place of the 
third person, for example, Ni wahbahrnig, he sees me, Ki wahbahrng, 
he sees you. Ni minig, he gives itto me. Here we see Ni and Kz 
are plural where win and o should be; but when the verb has refer- 
ence to a case of the third person, then the nominative of the third 
person keeps its proper place at the beginning of the verb, thus, 
Owahbahmahn, he sees him or them, Ominahn, he gives it to him. 
The pronouns of the third person are also omitted in the passive 
voice, namely, Wahbahmah, he is seen, Nisah, he is killed. Deponent 
verbs, Nisidizo, he kills himself, Kitchiahpitanimo, he thinks a good 
deal of himself. Mi wahbahrnig is distinguishable from the first and 
second persons by its final syllable zg, the first is Ni wahbahmah, I 
see him. I may here observe that the first and second have invari- 
ably the same termination; but the third person does not always 
agree with these, as it will appear from the following :—Mndahkooz, 
Tam sick, Kidahkooz, you are sick, ahkooze, he is sick; Ningoosah, 
I fear him, Kigoosah, you fear him, ogoosaun, he fears him or them, 
ogootawn, he fears it. 
The preceding observations, although constituting a mere outline of 
the subject, will serve to convey a general idea of the more important 
peculiarities regarding the third person of an Indian verb. If the 
subject be deemed of sufficient interest, it may perhaps be referred to 
more fully, in a future communication. 
