144 W. THALBITZER. 
several of the other forms peculiar to the same class (II) have main- 
tained their places in the EGr. system, especially in the verbs ending 
in -ga’’n or -ra:°n (in the indicative, 3d person). 
The ist and 2d persons of the contemporative and adjective 
modes have been amalgamated in the II(?), III and IV classes in EGr., 
е. ©. ajt”p'eqiliwa “I who am very good’; tikit-ina ‘I having arrived’; 
akisttoa ‘I being white’; atertoa ‘I using, or being used.’ Cf. $ 19. 
C. PRONOUNS 
$ 64. The personal pronouns for 1st and 2d person correspond 
with those of West Greenland, though with some phonetical peculiar- 
ities, and in respect of the Ist person with a different basis for the 
inflection in the locative and throughout the plural. The relative 
form is missing. 
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[== we WOW — yon 
Absolutive uwana or OA — umwanin Twin — ilivt:se 
Locative mwané — uwanitine line  — ildeE' sine 
Allative | uwdän'on — umwapit @n’on | ilin’on — itt sinon 
Instrumentalis | wwån'in — uwanitl'in'é | lien — ое. 
= Ablative | 
$ 65. — The interrogative pronouns are kia ‘who’, plural kik-in; 
cuna ‘what, cua (or со`а) in 8d person possessive, in relative co: or 
co'p, plural со`Ё; kisér ‘what and паЁег ‘which (of several)’; the last 
two are not found in WGr. — kiser, relative kisim, instrumentalis 
kisimija, is much used in conjunction with demonstrative pronouns, 
е. g. kise’na or kisime-’na < kisi + (те +) una ‘what is the matter”, 
kise-kudn ‘who may those be? 
nater (or nät'en), in plural nät’e'n has a possessive inflection, е. g. 
like this: паЁегрип ‘who of us? ; nati’ta ‘who of ours —?’; паЁегзе 
‘who of you?’ 
Related to cuna is cucsar ‘of what use’ e.g. cuscar-una ‘of what 
use is Ц”; further cume (cumi) ‘where’ (locative) or ‘wherefrom’ ; 
; ситип ‘whereto?’; cume:ti 
cumi makip'oa ‘wherefrom do I rise?’ 
(instrumentalis -+ Le, li): cumeti isimaliva ‘what did I think of’, i. e. 
‘I pretended to take no notice.’ АП these forms alternate with others 
whose initial sound is the ordinary s: suna (as in WGr.) ete. 
To those words also belong даст ‘how many’ and na”k or nap 
‘where’ (‘where have you put it, hidden it’ etc.). 
