d into substantives. 

 . .idi/./.i, II rOUS, I\- ■ zhaiwadizziwin, Gcncrasity. 



Mmwamdum, He happy, Mmwamdumowip, Happiness. 



Keezhaizeawizzi, He industrious. Beezhaizhiwizziwin, Industry. 



ffittimagizzi, 



If,' poor. 



Cttunagizziwio, 



Poverty. 



Aukk' 



He sick. 



Aukkoossiwin, 



Sick 



Kittimishki, 



He lazy. 



Kittimishkiwin, 



Laziness. 



N shkadizzi, 



1 fa angry. 



Nishkadizziwin, 



Anger. 



Haikadizzi, 



chaste. 



Baikadizziwin, 



Chastity. 



In • place the substantives thus formed, in the third person, 



tding with the indicative from which they were changed, it is 



j only to prefix the proper pronoun. Thus, Ogeezhaiwadiz- 



ziwin. his gener 



7. Compound substantives. The preceding examples have been 



tously from the various classes of words, primitive and 



derivative, simple and compound. Some of these words express but a 



. father — gah, mother — m6z, a moose — kag, a porcu- 



— liKuiir, a looo — and appear to be incapable of further division. 



■dered as primitives, although some of them 



lawyllabic words, There are also a number of 



/ some trisyllables, which, in the present state of 



imowledge of the language, may be deemed both simple 



and primative. Such 4, water J ossin, a stone; geezis, the 



B A it may be premised, si a principle which our 



have rendered probable, that all polysyllabic words, all 



'three syllables,* far «s damned, and most words of two 



syllables, are compounds. 



otaz, formed with a view to facilitate the ra- 



vance of ideas by consolidation, may, it is presumable, have 



early led to ti ■ oca of words, by which all the relations of ob- 



:. time and pe d. And in a language 



only wpoken, and not written, the primitives would soon become 



and lost in the multiform appendages of time and person, and 



•••rand object. And this process of anialira- 



i - thai sufficed in the coo- 



i of the sinijii. . • In a given latitude, would wury 



with their varying habits, institutions and migrations; The mtroduc- 



jectsandnew ideas wonkl require the invention of new 



iii'j<-li inor.- j»r«)l»able, existing terms would be modb 



