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.

    1022/1088 (page 1010)
    Examples of words that form no plural arc: orssoq blubber oquh mould nilak freshwater ice nuak snot Nouns (§§ J8-20) §18. CLASS I. PLURAL INFLECTION WITHOUT SHIFT OF STRESS The examples given in §17 show that two principles are applied in the formation of the plural,—single addition of the plural sign to the singular form; and substitution of the plural sign for the hnal conso- nant. \Ve observe the first principle in tLLo, pi. /.LLiii; the latter, in uLLoq, pi. uLLut. In the latter instance, t has been substituted for«^. These two principles may be observed in the whole inflectional treat- ment of the noun. On the whole, the plural stems of the nouns are prototypes of their inflection. Manj' nominal stems are affected by a shift of stress in the plural, which has often been followed b}'^ phonetic shifting in the stems of the words. We shall first treat words that show no shift of stress. The plural ending is regularl} t, but in some cases it. • Singular Plural pana pan at knife tutto tuttnt reindeer sise sisit fox’s den o /V • qaqqcuq qaqqat hill, mountain ayakkoq ayakkut pagan priest qimmeq qiminit dog tikippoq tikipput (the}’^) he has come li. -it is added to the consonantal stem (i. e., the absolutive) of words ending in t (which when following an 7, is regularly changed into s [cf. § 8]) and to the absolutive of certiiin words that end in -&j and -ik (the q and k being changed into r and y [cf. § 4]). Singular Plural sannat sannatit tool merqut merqutlt needle si-Lhit siLLisit whetstone §18