1877.] 
of Eastern Turkistan. 
2G1 
Possessive Affix, 3rd Person. It has been seen above that the 
Possessive Affixes corresponding to the several persons are as follows : 
1st yol-um = my road. 
2nd yol-ung = tby road. 
3rd yol- i = bis road. 
In the Accusative, however, as we have also seen, there is another 
Possessive Affix of the 3rd Person. 
1st yer-im-ni — my land (acc.), or yol-um-ni = my road (acc.) 
2nd yer-ing-ni — tby land (acc.), yol-ung-ni = tby road (acc.) 
3rd yer- in = bis land (acc.), yol-nn = bis road (acc.) 
as well as yer-i-ni , yol-i-ni. 
It seems that this same Possessive Affix of the 3rd person was formerly 
used in all the oblique cases (not the accusative only). The following ex¬ 
pressions have been found in an old verse :— 
Turkistan-ning yer-in-da kliali imas erdn-lar. 
Har bir gulach yer-in-da ydtur mar dan erdn-lar. 
“ In the land of Turkistan there is no lack of heroes. 
In every fathom of its soil there lie heroic men.” 
Thus in old Turki the Possessive Affixes (at least for the oblique 
cases) ran thus :— 
1st - 
-’m 
2nd- 
’ng 
3rd- 
-’n 
a usage not yet quite obsolete in Eastern Turkistan and which seems to have 
been generally retained in the more Western dialects. 
CHAPTER IV. 
THE ADJECTIYE. 
The Turki Adjective does not change at all, either for the different 
cases or for gender or number. 
Further details regarding it will be found under the heads of “ For¬ 
mation” and “ Syntax”. 
The Comparative of Adjectives (and Adverbs) is obtained by adding 
the affix rak , rag or rah : 
Ex. : obddn — good ; obddn-rcik = better. 
The Superlative is generally formed by inserting the object of 
comparison (or at least the word hamah = “all”) in the genitive and put¬ 
ting the adjective* into th epossessed form (3rd person). 
* This adjective thus becomes for the nonce a substantive: “the best” = “the 
one who is best,” 
