APPENDIX. 



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I. NATURAL OBJECTS * 



12 



English. 



Sky 



Sun 



Cloud 



heavyj cumu- 



Kowrarega. 



garlga 

 dapar 

 markei 



Gudang. 



inga 

 otera 



lus 



Moon 



driving, scud ras 



new 

 fuU 



Moonlight 



10 Star 



11 falling 



mornmg 



kissuri 



kainidung (634) 

 mullpal 

 kapi kissurri 



(612.6) 

 titiire 

 titure lidzarizhe, 



(10.745) 

 garlga titure, 



(2.10) 



aikana 

 kichla 

 ichara 



onbi, unbi 



* To form the plural of a noun or adjective, the rule appears to be to add 

 ie as a postfix, sometimes previously supplying » terminal vowel if required : 

 Ex. — " geta=hand" becomes " getale" in the plural : " kuku=foot, kukule:" 

 ' ' kutai=yam, kutaile : " " ipi=wife, ipile : " " kerne=lad undergoing a certain 

 ceremony, kernele:" "makaow=mat, makaowle:" " bom=fruit of pan- 

 danus, bomale." There are exceptions however ; "mari=shell ornament," 

 makes "marurre" in the plural: "gul=^canoe, gulai ;" " tawpei=short, 

 tawpeingh;" all nouns ending in ra have the plural in re, as "kowra==ear, 

 kowrare " and all ending in kai gain jille in the plural, as " ipikai=woman, 

 ipikaijille." 



Regarding the allusion to a terminal vowel, it may be mentioned here that 

 as most Kowrarega words end in a vowel, its absence when a vowel commences 

 the following word is commonly owing to elision. Ex. — " ndzu umai^my 

 dog," becomes " udz'umai." When the last consonant in a word is the same 

 as the first in the following word, one of the letters is omitted. Ex. — " apa 

 pirung=soft ground," becomes "ap'irung." There are numerous other 

 contractions, as " ai" for "aidu^food;" " aiye" for " aiyewel=come here ;" 

 " mue utsem=the fire has gone out," for " mue utsimem," &c. 



