The meaning of this class of suffixes is the same ; they locate a place or object that is at, in, or on some other place or object, the name of Which is prefixed, as in Delaware Hitgunk, " On or to a tree ;" Utenink, " In the town ;" Wachtschunk, " On the mountain." In some cases the locative takes the verbal form indicating place or country, Williams wrote " Sachimaiionck, a Kingdom or Monarchy." Dr. Schoolcraft wrote: "From Ojibwai (Chippeway) is formed Ojib-wainong, ' Place of the Chippeways ; Monominikaun-ing' ' In the place of wild rice,' " Dr. Brinton wrote " IValum-ink, ' The place of paint.' " The letter s, preceding the locative, changes the meaning of the latter to near, or something less than at or on. The suffixes -is, -it, -OS, -es mean " Small," as in Menates or Menatit, " Small island." The locative affix cannot be applied to an animal in the sense of at, in, on, to. There are many formative inflections and suffixes indicating the plural, etc. Mohawk or Iroquoian names, while polysynthetic, differ from

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Alg^onquian in construction. " The adjective," wrote Horatio Hale, " when employed in an isolated form, follows the substantive, as Kanonsa, ' house ;' Kanonsa-kowa, ' large house ;' but in general the substantive and adjective coalesce." In some cases the adjective is split in two, and the substantive inserted, as in Tiogen, a composition of Te, " two," and ogeit, " to separate," which is split and the word ononte, " mountain," or hill, inserted, forming Te-ononte-ogen, " Between two mountains," " The local relations of nouns are expressed by affixed particles, such as ke, ne, kon, akon, akta. Thus from Ononta, mountain, we have Onontdkc, at (or to) the mountain; from Akchrat dish, Akehrdtne, in or on the dish," etc.