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KTIIKOLOOY OF THE INDO-PACIFIC ISLANDS. 



The 3d pronoun is wa-tii sep., wa pref.* Wa is tbe labial 

 def. 3d pron. £cc, of Bhotian Soythic and N. A»i&n and of 

 Di-avtro-Auetraliau (also Caucasian, Suruitico-Afrtcaii &c.) The 

 Gyarung form and varieties of it are common in tho Ultraindo- 

 Gangeiic vocabularies (wa Dhimal» Garo &c). The Uttraindo- 

 Grangetic forma in u ( bu &c) are probably from the Tibetan mo, 

 VQ The postfix tu is tha universal dental def. Varieties of 

 it occur also in tbu mi/t ntifff' Gyar, and su ant/bod^f'' 

 " which*', " n?Ao" Gyarung, Tib., Tbochu, Horpa, Takpa, 

 Manyak; Takpa and Horpa have also siender forms aeh in, si. 

 It is common in varioua forms in the Uliraindo-Gangettc lan- 

 guages. In ibe plural ya-po* the root is EOt a variation of wa 

 but of thil Horpa ja ; jya. 



The plural particle appears to be -pos, nga-j»(?s yajw* 

 " the^,** is probably a variety of the labial Cbiuo-Ultraindian mun, 

 me kc.f Guruivg -mo. The Magar -bos is probably a modificatioa 

 of -pos, 



The possessives are simply the roots nga-, na-, wa-, prefixed. 



A further pronominal element yo occurs, but from the transpo- 

 sition of some of tbe words in the printed Voc. its real power is 

 somewhat uncertain. The forma given are nga-yo " J," yo^nJe", 

 nyo **yiou" It might be thought from the last two that yo was a 

 plural particle, and from the first two that it %vas a root for the lat 

 jiron. corresponding with the Chinese yu. It occurs in the Hor- 

 ]ta su-yo, (Man yak su-^e) anybody^' (Gyar, su, Takpa si-m«^7, 

 Thochu song-t&an,) If these forms stood alone the -yo of nga-yo 

 might he considered as a singular or common defiaitive used to 

 eraphasiae the pronoun. But in Lepcha it is a plural postf. (-yi*)- 

 The spoken Bhotian plural postfix of the pronouns -njo appears la 

 be the same particle and it is also found in tbe Manyak dual -ju. 

 Lastly, in Bodo wiiich has special glossarial affinities with Gya- 

 rung and Mauyak, it occui-s in the nasalised form jong as the 

 plural pronoun, corresponding with the Gyarung yo and Manyak 

 a-ju. If we have correctly traced the ety neology of the Manyak 

 ju and dur, all these plural forms are variations of the archaic 

 Tatar numeral 2, 



• The Voc. Rivea oga-pos, wa-tu, but the form«r i» obviou&lj the ploral of nga 

 " J " tn«jwpo*ed. 



