History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River
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,
may be employed to express the various senses of we, and us, ours, theirs. These fourteen suffixed them, they,
oog, ug,
pronouns enable the speaker to designate the objective transi tive persons, and to designate the reflex action in the first plural,
which is uniform.
The anti-epicene suffixed pronouns for the same persons, are am, een, in, on, aun, un, aim, eem, im, om, oam, um ; with such changes in their adjustment as usage and the juxtaposition of consonants r^ave produced.
The whole stock of verbs in the Indian vocabulary five epicene and five classes of anti-epicene with grouped The conjugations embrace not only the natural conjugations. 5.
Verbs.
is
common use,
but they provide for all the nouns and of every' possible kind ; for these, it must be noun-adjectives verbs in
remembered, can
all
be converted, under the plastic rules of
the language, into verbs.
With a formidable display of vocal terms and inflective forms, there is, therefore, a very simple principle to unravel the lexico graphy, namely, fidelity to the meaning of primary and vowelic If we compare this principle to a thread, parts of sounds.