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.

    1042/1088 (page 1030)
    The Prosecutive Case Possessively Inflected si lit ear; si iit(i-(i ms ear; siiitiij iif through an ear. Singular and plural Old Eskimo (Relative) 4th per. sing. 2d per. sing.. siutimiyul through his (own) ear or ears siutikkut through thy ear or “ars Ksiutimeput <,siulitkut sixUime siutit 1st per. sing.. siuli<nkkut through my ear or ears j<siutipkut1 or 1 siulimakul 1 eiviima 4th per. pi. . 2d per. pi. 1st per. pi. . siuUmikkul through their own ear or ears siutimsiyut through your ear or ears nutMtiput til rough our ear or ears <.sitUimikkut <.8iuUpsevut <Csiuliptarjut siutimik siulif>sse siutMia 3d per. sing.. 3d per. pi. Singular, ear \siutaavut OT ] , Uulaativul {through his (EJUS) ear siuiaati^ut through their (eorum) ear \<.sixUaar)ul'! ox 1 siutaalaput (Absolutive) jstidaa 3d per. sing.. 3d per. pi. Plural, ears siutaa isiifut siutaa isiyut <siutaaUaiiun (Relative) siutaaisa tiulaaisa All the other endings beginning with n are joined to the noun in the same manner as -ne. Other examples: e. i'sei'Ftane at the entrance of it («) umiap ataane of the umiak, in {ne) the under-space {atd) of it {a) = under the umiak qilaa'^p kiLLi'gane of the sk}, in (net the border {kiLLiJc)oi it («)= on the horizon qaFnne on the top {qak) of me -11 at. iLLuminut iserrpoq he goes into {nut) his (me) house {Illo) JciLLiijanut to the border of it {a) ilaminut to his or her own {me) house-mate {ila) ikiyati^nnut to my {^n) friend or friends {ikiyut\e^ -nit. inimin.it from his or its own {m:i) place, nest, etc. {^ine) kiLLiyanit from the border of it (a), especially from that time noop kujataanit of the point of land {nook), from its (a) southern space (^(y’ai{[a]) = from the south of the point of land qaqqaj) qaanit of the mountain, from its {a) top=from the top of the mountain