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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    BUltRAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY rmn.i.. 40 Northwest Greenland Southwest Alaska Plural Plural Ablative it qaqqanit from the ? • mountains Instrumentalis ik qaqqanik by the vk higrliruJc mountains Prosecutive' iijut qaqqatiyut over the Ph un inqrltthun \jiyrit- mountains Phuni] Conformative tut qaiqqattut like the tun IngrUtiin or .^qualis mountains Northwest Greenland Singular Plural AbsolutiAe ihLo a house, the ihLut hoirses, the house houses Allativm -lit ihLwnut to, into, the ihL'unut to, into, the house houses Locative -e ihLume in the house ihLune in the houses Ablative -it iLLuniit from the iLLun.it from the house houses Instrumentalis -ik iLLumik by (Avith) iLLunik by (with) the the house houses Prosecutive -kuf, -yut iLLukkut through the iLLutiyut through the house • hou-ses T|iere is onl}' one kind of irregularity, or of deviation from this type of inflection, arising by the retention of the final consonant of the absolutive case in the other cases, this consonant being assimilated with the initial consonant of the case-suflix. Accordingly, 011I3’ such Avords as end in a consonant in the absolutive singular mav shoAv irregu- larities: e. g., ULLoq, which retains its final assimilated into r in four of the singular cases, but is quite regular in the plural. Absolutive Allative Locative Ablative Instrumentalis Prosecutive Singular uLLoq a day, the day uLLormut to the da}^ xiLLorme in the day, on the day uLLormit from the da} uLLormik with the da}^ itLLukkut in or through the day Plural (regular) uLLut days ^iLLxinut to the days ULLxine in the da}s xLLLunit from the days ^iLLunik Avith the days uLLutiyxit through the days Note: uLLorme on that da}’; uLLume to-day. ' The prosecutive plural ends, in Southwest Greenland, in -tigut (='Liibrador), which form is nearer to the Alaska -lihun (or Uxunt) than is the north Greciilandic form. §