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It is on t water. 



4. Nib-eeng attai. 

 Put it on the table. 



5. Addopowin-ing atton. • 

 Look in the book. 



6. Enabin muzziny'igun-ing. 

 You stand in the rain. 



7. Kimmiwun-oong ki nibow. 

 What have you in that box. 



8. Waigonain aitaig mukuk-oong. 

 Put it in the kettle. 



9. Akkik-oong atton, or Podawain. 



My bow is not in the lodge ; neither is it in the canoe, nor on the rock. 

 10. Kawin pindig iasi ni mittigwab ; kawiuh gyai chimkn-ing ; kawin 

 gyai -dzhibik-oong. 



An attentive inspection of these examples will show, that the local 

 form pertains either to such nouns of the animate class, as are in their 

 nature inanimates, or at most possessed of vegetable life. And here 

 another conclusion presses upon us — that where these local terminations, 

 in all their variety, are added to the names of animated beings, when such 

 names are the nominatives of adjectives or adjective-nouns, these words 

 are converted into terms of qualification, indicating like, resembling, 

 equal. Thus, if we wish to say to a boy, he is like a man, the expres- 

 sion is, Inin-ing izzhinagozzi ; or if to a man, he is like a bear, Mukk- 

 oong izzhinagozzi ; or to a bear, he is like a horse, Pabaizhikogazh-ing 

 izzhinagozzi. In all these expressions the word izzhi, is combined with 

 the pronominal inflection d (or na) and the animate termination gozzi. 

 And the inflection of the nominative is merely an adjective correspon. 

 dence with izzhi : — a term indicative of the general qualities of persons 

 or animated beings. Where a comparison is instituted or a resem- 

 blance pointed out between inanimate instead of animate objects, the in- 

 flection gozzi, is changed to gwud, rendering the expression, which was, 

 in the animate form, izzhmitgozzi, in the inanimate form, izzhinkgwud. 



There is another variation of the local form of the noun, in addition 

 to those above instanced, indicative of locality in a more general sense. 

 It is formed by ong or nong — frequent terminations in geographical 

 names. Thus from Ojibwai, (Chippewa), is formed Ojibwainowg, Place 

 of the Chippewas. From Wamittigozhiwug, Frenchmen, is formed 

 Wamittigozhiwo?ig, Place of Frenchmen. From Ishpatina hill, Ishpat- 



