APPENDIX. 



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English. 



Kowrarega. 



VI. — Numerals. 



Gudang. 



569 One 



570 Two 



571 Three 



572 Four 



573 Five 



574 Six 



575 Seven 



576 Eight 



577 Afraid 



578 Alive 



579 All, the whole 



580 Another 



581 Ashamed 



warapiine (580) epiamana 



quassur elabaia 



uquassur - wara- dama* 

 pune 



uquassur - uquas- 

 sur 



uq. -uq. -warapune 



uq.-war.-uq.-war. 



uq.-war.uq. -war. 

 war. 



uquassur or ipel 

 uquassur re- 

 peated 4 times 



VIII. — AnjECTivEs.t 



akan 



danaleg (443, anading 

 804) 

 miiro 



wara (569) inyana 



ajiran (823) 



* After careful investigation I am inclined to think that the Gudang hlacks 

 have no words to express definite numbers beyond "three." " Dama" is 

 generally used for higher numbers, and occasionally " unora." 



t The formation of many adjectives can be clearly traced : in fact, one of the 

 most obvious features of the language — imperfectly as it is understood — is the 

 facility with which many nouns may be converted into either adjectives or 

 verbs. Thus, " mapei=a bite," becomes " mapeile= capable of biting," and 

 is the root of the verb ** mapeipa=to bite." The positive adjunct "leg," and 

 its negative " aige" (802, 803), are also used to convert nouns into adjectives : 

 the former follows the same rules as those before given for forming the plural : 

 — " gizu=sharpness," becomes either " gizule= sharp," or " gizuge=blunt," 

 literally, " sharpness possessing, or, possessing not :" from "nuki^water," 

 we get the form " nukile maram=the well contains water," or, "nukegi ma- 

 ram=the well is dry:" " danagi=blind," literally means, "eye possessing 

 not:" as a further example, I may give, "ipikai ajirge wap' inabadale mapeip 

 =the shameless woman eats this sore-producing fish." 



