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 248 A SYNOPSIS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES [iNTROD. A-naw-si-yu is applied to animate objects and things of a solid shape. Tsaw-si-yu to other things. Present tense. U-ni-tsa-ta, many. Past tense. U-ni-tsa-tung. Future tense. U-ni-tsa-te-sti. The adjective may become a verb, thus ; U-ni-tsa-ta, there are many. U-ni-tsa-tung-gi, there were many. U-ni-tsa-te-sti, there will be many. Substantives denoting relationship and those which neces- sarily imply a possessor, as the members of the body, &c, usually have inflections denoting the number and person of the possessor. Thus ; E-taw-ta, Tsa-taw-ta, U-taw-la, Gi-ui-taw-ta, Aw-gi-ni-taw-la, I-sti-taw-ta, my father, thy father, his father, thy and my father, his and my father, the father of you two, I-gi-taw-ta, Aw-gi-taw-ta, I-tsi-taw-ta, U-ni-taw-ta, Ti-gi-taw-ta, Ti-tsa-taw-ta, Tsu-taw-ta, your and my father, his and my father, your father, their father, my fathers, thy fathers, his fathers, &c. Tsi-skaw-li, my head, Hi-ska w-li, thy head, A-skaw-li, his head, Ti-ni-skaw-li, thy head and mine, fyc. 3. How many numbers? Is there a dual, or definite plural, or both, besides the general or indefinite plural ? Ans. In the first and second persons, or rather in the second person and in the combinations of the first and second, and of the first and third persons, there is a dual as well as a plural number. In the third person there is no distinction between dual and plural. 4. Of what inflections are pronouns susceptible ? Do they depend on number, gender ? Do those used in the conjugation of verbs differ from those used in an absolute sense ? ' Who saw thee ? ' 'He — he saw ' : Does the word he differ ?