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.

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    Examples: ‘ tgilla weather ^ epMo intestines ^ apne woman ■* taleph arm ® aten name ^ ‘uyapak stone ’’ apan father * aggut man ® ipun oar nunak two lands (Petitot XLIX) ^'■atekpepk two names(^^^■6?., L) ^^tupapkp two tents {ibid., XLIX) lands; tupkpeU tents; amit skins; xihlut days Singular Alaska (see Bar-j a> li? ? num) . . .[/(?) 1-5 Examples: ‘ sla weather ^ irkklM evil Dual Plural k\yn)(f% ® lydrolvtiing, see Barmim 281- 282 ® inglu half ^sne [sni] its bank or edge *puydk smoke k=[(2\ 'l ® ingi'ik mountain ^ippUn native spoon or ladle ^ cha'nasxin native knife ® slin whetstone ’’ mdk the banks (dual); cf. also Barnum 283 ^ chivoagka my upper front teeth (Barnum 6); cf. the verb forms village (lands) ingrit mountains “ n occurs as plural sign only in the numerals: stamSn four, etc. (Barnum 219) In the Greenland dialects the formation of the plural of nouns is often accompanied by change of stress: e. g., a'meg a skin pi. >ammit The dual form is much less used than the plural; and I think a great many nouns are never used in the dual, this form being replaced by le plural. On the other hand, there are some few words that occur only in the dual form: e. g., mavLuk two; pitssook the claw of issaa'k goggles The following words attdt a dung-hill novLut ligature ULLut a bird’s nest (especially the down in the nest) arssamerit aurora borealis pan'^tit a paddle miFFit a bird-dart foreh'nger plurals: niuisdt the stomach ga'tixxdt the back (of man or animal) dssaaH the hand (< assak a fin ger) unvidt the boat rowed by women ( <umiag the empty boat) 'indTLoyywik two small ones a crayfish; the thumb and tl are collective 44877°—Bull. 40, ptl—lo 64 §17