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•aush — A foot 



Ozid 



Ozid -ash. 



An arm 



Onik 



Onik -ash. 



An ear 



Otowug 



Otowug-ash. 



A hoof 



Wunnussid 



Wunnussid-ash. 



A rush mat 



Appukwa 



Appukw-ash. 



These forms cannot be said, strict! y, to be without analogy in the En- 

 glish, in which the limited number < f words terminating in ish, as saltish, 

 blackish, furnish a correspondence in sound; with the first adjective form. 



It may subserve the purposes of generalization to add, as the result 

 of the foregoing inquiries, that substantives have a diminutive form, 

 made in ais, ees, 6s, or as ; a derogative form, made in ish, eesh, oosh, 

 or ash ; and a local form, made in aing, eeng, ing, or oong. By a prin- 

 ciple of accretion, the second, or third, may be added to the first form, 

 and the third to the second. 



Example. 

 Serpent, s. Kinai'bik. 



s. diminutive — 6ns, implying Little serpent. 



s. derogative ish, " Bad serpent. 



s. local ing, " In (the) serpent. 



s- dim..6c der. onsish " Little bad serpent. 



s. dim. & lo. — unsing " In (the) little serpent. 



s. dim. der. & lo. onsishing, " In (the) little bad serpent. 



4. More attention has, perhaps, been bestowed upon these points, than 

 their importance demanded, but in giving anything like a comprehen- 

 sive sketch of the substantive, they could not be omitted ; and if men- 

 tioned at all, it became necessary to pursue them through their various 

 changes and limitations. Another reason has presented itself. In trea- 

 ting of an unwritten language of which others are to judge chiefly from 

 examples, it appeared desirable that the positions advanced should be 

 accompanied by the data upon which they respectively rest — at least, 

 by so much of the data employed, as to enable philologists to appreciate 

 the justice or detect the fallacy of our conclusions. To the few, who 

 take any interest in the subject at all, minuteness will not seem tedious, 

 and the examples will be regarded with deepjnterest. 



As much of our time as we have already devoted to these lesser points 

 of inquiry, it will be necessary, at this place, to point out other inflections 

 and modifications of the substantive. or s^ear it from obscurities, that we 

 may go into the discussion of the otnll parts of speech, unincumbered. 



