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Here the difficulty seems to be for one to determine 

 whether etuis, is redundant or intrusive in both these trinal 

 examples, whether it acquires a different meaning by collocation, 

 or what it may here signify. (If the trinal were a more recent 

 development than the plural, perhaps it may have been formed 

 by simply attaching the elements hol-lih to the plural forms : — ■ 



Plural. Norn. Case. Trinal. Nom. Case. 



Bang-etuk, 



we. 



Baug-etuk kol-lik, 



we. 



Bang-ad, 



you. 



Bang-ud-kol-lik. 



yon. 



Bang-tan-ong, 



they. 



Bang-tan-a-kol-lik, 



they 



It is noticeable that the final a in tana (they, trinal) is 

 wanting in the plural, bangtanong. In the latter, a is perhaps 

 suppressed avoiding the hiatus that would arise with follow- 

 ing a. Or in the trinal, ovg may be contracted to a). 



It ma}' possibly be correct, however, to look upon the 

 retaining of the two demonstrative components in the one 

 compound as a peculiarity of the Australian, akin to that 

 which we find in such aboriginal sentences as, Going / to 

 burn / stick = I am going to burn a stick ; You big-headed 

 skin and bone fellow you ; Going / to pour out / water. 



Thununa ngi leckin nganatha yarn. 

 Going to I pour out I water. 



And now a few words in conclusion, basing them 

 on the foregoing analysis. The Woddowro compounds, 

 while not pronouns in verity, are pronouns by effect. Either 

 (1) the principal word used without the demonstrative, or (2) 

 the demonstrative without the principal word, or (3) the root 

 syllable of the numeral prefixed to the demonstrative may 

 serve as a pronoun. The composition in most of the examples 

 may be thus expressed, genitive in brackets indicating the 

 place of the element denoting the possessive case : — singular 

 and plural, principal word ( + genitive) + demonstrative : dual, 

 principal word ( + genitive) + numeral + demonstrative : 

 trinal, principal word (+ genitive) + demonstrative + numeral 

 + demonstrative. 



H. ThRek'.r, Printer, Ryrie Street, Gtejong. 



