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 THE NARRIXYERI DIALECT.

��2. The postpositional suffixes to pronouns arc always attached to the accusative case ; as, kan-agk, 'to them.'

3. Pronominal adjectives are ahvays (declined vrith their nouns ; as, kin-anyir-agk taldumand-agk, 'to his hou.se'; and so also hikkai korn, 'this man,' harnakar kornar, 'these men'; ornagk nuggugai, ' in that day.'

4. The diminutive is placed after the case-ending of the noun ; as, porl-ald-ol, ' of a little child '; porl-ar-ol, ' of little children.'

5. When an adjective and its noun are declined together, the case-ending is attached only to the adjective; nuggai--ald korn, ' of a good man.'

6. The post-position -uramb, 'for the purpose of,' is ahvays attached to any verb which is put in the infinitive by anotlier verb ; as, pempir il anagk nakkari tak-uramb, 'he gave me a cluck to eat.'

12. Formation of Y\'ords.

This is effected by adding on various tei'minations, some of which have already been noticed : —

(1) -wallin, 'being'; as, pilgeru-wallin, 'greedy.'

(2) -warin, 'making'; as, kogk-u-warin, 'sending away from,' from kogk, 'apart'; anagk-warin, 'prepa.ring,' 'getting ready' {lit., 'making towards it'), from anagk, kanagk, ityanagk, the dative of the pronoun itye..

(3) -aty eri, ' belonging to '; as, lamm-aty eri, 'wood for a fire,' from lammin, ' carrying on the back.'

��13. List of Prepositions, Adverbs, kc.

��The prepositions are used in this list are preceded by

Above — kerau, kiath.

After — ug.

Again — kagulandai.

mu ganyi.

-uganyi. Agent— -urmi, -amaldy. Ago, long time— kaldau, kl Ah ! — yakkai ! takami ! Almost — gak. Alone — naityi, -knotyerai. Also — inye, -inyin. Always — kaldau-amp. Apart — yinbaik ul un. As— luk. At — warre.

��as post-positions ; those words which a hyphen are used as affixes.

Away from here andek.

,, from anywhere kogk.

,, apart — kogkinyeri. Be off — lorn, lolden, gopwar. Because — marnd, hil-amb-uk. Before (of time) — ugunai, ugul.

„ (in front of) — guguragk.

,, — gunkuiti. [wan.

Behind — yarewar, waiag, karlo- Below— nioru. Beneath — maremuntunt. Between — taragk. Besides — kamanye, -anye. Bv itself — kogkinyeri. By— il, ile.

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