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 Naggai, ' my fatUev,' is tlius declined : — • JS^om. Naggai, 'my father.' Geii. I^Taggai-yin, 'of my father.' Dot. 1. Naggai-yin-amby, 'for my father.' Dat. 2. Naggai-yin-agk, 'to my father.' Ace. Naggai-yin, 'my father.' Cans. Naggai-yin-inda, ' by my father. ' Abl. 6. Naggai-yinanyir, ' from my father.'

All the other terms of relationship, with their possessive ad- juncts, may be declined by adding these case-endings. But some- times the Genitive of relationship puts the -aid of ordinary nouns before its own ending ; as, tart-ald-an, ' of my (younger) brother.'

5. Derivatives from Nouns, itc.

Derivatives are formed from nouns by adding to them such terminations as : —

1. - inyeri, 'belonging to'; as, kurl-inyeri, 'a hat,' from kurly, 'head'; turn-inyeri, 'a boot,' from turny, 'foot'; kurr-inyer-egk, 'a pair of trousei"s,' from kurregk (dual) 'the shins.' Such a derivative Avord, when declined, is treated as a common noun, and the post-position is added to the adjective termination; as, kurl-inyer-ald, 'of a hat,' kurr-inyer-egkal, ' of a pair of ti'ousers.'

2. -urumi or -urmi, which is added to the stem of a verb to denote ' the instrument ' with which the action expressed by the verb is done, or a thing which is used for some particular })ur- pose ; as, tyety-urumi, 'oil, ointment,' from tyetyin, 'anoint- ing'; kunk-urumi, 'pills,' from kunkun,' swallowing'; mutt- urmi, 'a drink,' from muttun, 'drinking'; kalt-urmi, 'a spade,' from k alt, ' to dig '; drek-urmi, 'a tomahawk,' from drek, 'to cut or chip.' Here also the post-position is affixed to the form- ative for the purposes of declension.

3. -amaldy, which is added to the stem of a verb, to denote the agent or person who does the action; as, pett-amaldy, 'a thief,' from pett, 'to steal'; yelpul-amaldy, 'a liar,' froui yelpul, ' to tell a lie.' Here also the post-position is placed at the end of the word.

■i. -watyeri means ' full of '; as, plogge-watyeri, ' posses.sed of sorcery' ; tuni-watyeri, 'full of sand.'

5. "When yandy, 'old,' 'useless,' is vised with a noun, it modifies the form of the noun, and attaches the case-ending to itself; as, yandy orn fyb?* korn), 'an old man,' yant-ald orn 'of an old man'; yandy imin fyb>- miminy), 'an old woman,' yant-ald mi n, 'of an old woman.'

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