ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 1 3 



enne, negative enserc, with three exceptions. Those in ion have ris, 

 riskwe, rinne, risere ; and ending in gon have the present in ks, 

 imperfect kskoue, futnre ag, negative ache, with sHght exceptions. 

 Some verbs in ron have the present in rhe, future r, future negative 

 anne. Others have in the present onsk, future on, negative ronne. 

 Still others have present ons, future re, negative resegs. 



Verbs in se have the same in the present and future, and sere in 

 the negative. Those in oilmi have ouas in the imperfect, future so 

 or o, negative wasere. Those in en are irregular, but if they end 

 in gen they make the present in cha, future g, future negative 

 ganne. If the ending is gannen or gennen the present is gennha, 

 future genn, and negative gennande, while those in ien are irregular. 



Verbs in at have the present at, imperfect atakoue. In et they 

 have tha, ten, tanne and in out the same. Those in at, et, it, out and 

 ont have a double present : one for the act and another when it is 

 customary. Te and ta have present ta, imperfect takoue, future 

 ten, negative tanne. Ti has the present tisk, future ts or tars, nega- 

 tive tire. 



Verbs ending in tion have the present ties, future ti, negative 

 tiesere. With ston the present is tha, future t, negative tanne. 

 Those in thon have thosk in the present, imperfect tho, negative 

 thosere. Those in ton vary from this, and those in o are mostly 

 irregular. No general rule applied to many ending in on, but there 

 were common rules for all. 



Those ending in a, e, o, k, s, t, have the imperfect in koue. From 

 active verbs the passive is formed by prefixing at to the first person 

 of the present indicative, g being taken away, but this has excep- 

 tions. Kon, ston, or ton may be added to verbs to express 

 causality and this was quite common, as onnehon, to live on any- 

 thing, from onhhe, to live. Some verbs are naturally relative ; others 

 are made so by additions and this involves many changes. 



Nouns are not inflicted by cases, and thus are unchanged except 

 in compounds. National nouns may be formed from the simple 

 name of the nation by adding ronnon or haga to express people. 

 There are many verbal norns and those derived from adjectives. 

 All substantives do not undergo composition. He noted also that 

 while broadly generic names could be compounded, individual or 

 specific ones could not. The name of a tree could be compounded 



