Volume 1

Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas ; with illustrative sketches by Roland B. Dixon ... [and others].

  • Franz Boas
Date:
1911-
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Credit: Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas ; with illustrative sketches by Roland B. Dixon ... [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    1018/1088 (page 1006)
    Bases Derivative stems Vocalic or conso- nantal Stage I (a, c, o) Stage If (*, 1. P) Stage III (7) Stage IV *uwa-*uwK Gr. uwaya I; urmr/ul we Al. kw/lnq I; hwdiikfiM wo Al. hwc I; hwCii- g<l of me *uwap or *uwat or * uwak Gr. u'wdnnut to me Gr. u'uicit/aof our Al. 'hwang'ni'ni to me Lab. tngva<*taXFa‘! then Lab. taqua [(ajf.'a] there it is *taa-*tao Lab. Mra< *tao- va then, so it was Gr. laawa so it was Gr. <aa«’nn< *taona he there Haoso Gr. taamtima of him there *talj Gr. tiinsa *UHjar-*tdljo Gr. UiBsa it is it is enough G r. IdBsane there: tiissuo- va through there *t(VJak tdnsnvvd from Uiero *ma Al. manlOk it is hero Al. rndhUn hence by this way (cf. Gr. mauna throtigh here) *maa-mao G r. maane here Gr. maa«ma< maona through here *maak maagga from here maanna<. *nm- akna now, the present mo- ment - *VUltj Gr. 7nassa-this is—; here is— Gr. mannaK. *maliia this one M. tamadja surely *malja-matjo Gr. niassa Gr. maseame oertainly, of eourso Gr. maluma=‘ masuma of this here *matjak Gr. massakkul now, for the time being § 16. Classes of Words The lines of demarcation between classes of words are v’ague, because a great man} of the inflectional and derivative endings (suflixes) are common to words that we are accustomed to consider as belonging to separate classes, such as nouns and verbs. On the other hand, we can not assert that the evolution of this language has not tended toward a fixed grouping of some of the suflixes around cerbiin classes of words (e. g., demonstratives; temporal particles; the terms i and thou; wHOLE and alone). No doubt the Eskimo language shows §16