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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    4. -itc, -te SMALL, the diminutive sufBx. niedilitc canoe small (from medil canoe) 102.9 djeldtc small storage-basket 158.13 5. -i/aum SMALL, YOUNG. Used of trees. nihtidiyauui young black oaks (from nihtiLk black oak) 6. -nenuni resembling. This has furnished manif new names. qdneimn worms like (rice, from its resemblanc.e to white grubs) xonnewan fire like 329.10 7. -din, PLACE. tsedin ])rush-phice (a grave) 8. -ta' PLACES. milla^kinta its hands bases places (its wrists) 9. -hut ON. miskut a landslide on (the name of a village) denokiU the sky (this ns on) 280.12 § 22. Compounds There are five classes of compound nouns: (1) A few nouns stand in juxtaposition without a subordinating possessive prefix. In a few cases the second noun seems to qualify the first: for example, humxan snake river (an eel). If these compounds are introduced by a possessive prefi.x, the first noun qualifies the second: for example, kixxakkin its net pole. (2) When the second of two nouns forming a compound has a pos- sessive prefix, the first qualifies the second and is subordinate to it. for example, dindcii^ initctcwo fi.int its (jrandmother (a bird). (3) A few compounds which are true substantives have the first element a noun, and the second an adjective qualifying it. An ex- ample of such is yauLkai louse white (a grayback). (4) Compounds of nouns and qualifying adjectives are .sometimes introduced by possessive prefixes. While they serve as substantives, they really qualify a subject understood: as in misHa^niLtcwin its mouth stinks, the bird having a stinking mouth (a buzzard). (5) Compounds similar to the last have for their last element woids indicating abundance or lack of the quality named by the first part of the compound. Examples are: mdxxakoxdlen its children having (doe), mitodjeediii its mind lacking (an infant). § 22
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