Substantives require, throughout the language, separable or Inflections inseparable pronouns, under the form of prefixes. of the first and second persons, which occupy the place of possessives, and those of the third person, resembling objectives, pertain to words

which are

either primitives, or denote but a

single object, as moose, fire.

There is, however, another class

of substantives, or substantive for it embraces a great

class

scriptive terms

are required.

in the

expressions, and an extensive portion of the compound de

use of which no pronominal prefixes

The distinctions of person are, exclusively, sup

Of this class are the words de by pronominal suffixes. of of scriptive country, place dwelling, field of battle, place of

plied

employment, &c.

Thus,*///W<7^, home or place of dwelling, Aindauyaun, my home ; Alndauin the substantive singular, is

home. And the substantive plural Aindau-yaun-in, my homes ; Aindau-yun-in, thy homes Aindau-yaung-in, our homes, &c. Substantives have modifications by which locality, diminution, a defective quality, and the past tense are expressed ; by which various adjectives and adverbal significations are given ; and the substantives themselves converted into verbs. Such finally the of the and modes masculine feminine are, also, indicating

yun,

thy

home; Aindau-d,

his

is

;

(both merged in the animate class), and those words which are of a strictly sexual character, or are restricted in their use to

males or females.

That quality of the noun which, in the shape of an inflection, denotes the relative situation of the object by the contiguous