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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River

Ruttenber, E.M. History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River; their origin, manners and customs; tribal and sub-tribal organizations; wars, treaties, etc., etc. Albany: J. Munsell, 1872. 266 words

so easily, that a child need never mistake it. The terminal g or n of each word denotes in all positions, the

remembered

;

classes of nature, great genderic the of grammar. points

two

which

are

the cardinal

the regular plurals are respec Agreeably to data furnished, and ain, een, in, on, un, with the addi tively ag, eg, ig, og, ug, tional aug, eeg, and oag, in the vital, and aun, een, and oan, for the long vowels, in the non-vital class.

gained

Only two ideas are

that the ob by thirty-two numerical inflections, namely,

jects are vital

or non-vital.

APPENDIX.

The pure verbs, the noun-verbs, the adjective-verbs, and the propositional, adverbial, and compound terms and declen-* made plural precisely as the nouns, regard being al had to the principles of euphony, in throwing away or ways a letter, or giving precedence to an adjective inflection. adding

sions, are

The suffixed pronouns are required to be put at the end of these plurals, where they will not always coalesce without in serting them before the sign of the epicene or anti-epicene. These suffixed plural inflections, as before indicated, are yaun, yun, id, or simply d /, you, be, she ; which are changed to plurals personal by the usual inflections of the letter g, making

them yaung, we, us, our (ex.) for ye.

yung, we, us our (in.), and yaig The vital particle are, is placed before d for the pro ;

noun they.

As the pronouns are made plural precisely as the nouns, for distinction's sake, the numerical inflections aig, aug, eeg, ig, og,