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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MARCH, 1903.
with flat things, as book, a leaf, a hoe, a knife, pak, as nokė pak phli, four knives ;
lö pak-phòngo, five leaves. with globalar things, as an egg, a gourd, a vessel, pum, as võ-11 pum-ni, two eggs. with parts of the body, and also with rings, bangles and other ornaments, hòng, as
kèmg clòng, One legi roi hỏng-mi, two bangles. Note that one of anything is not formed with isi, but, if of persons, with inut, if of other things, with e-prefixed to the generic determinative; one cow = chainòng ējón; one tree = thèngpi ēròng: one book = puthi ēpåk; one egg = to-li ēpum, etc. This - appears to be borrowed from Assamese, in which it is shortened from ek.
Ordinals appear to be formed by prefixing tatai to the cardinal, as batai kethom, third ; bătăi philt, fourth. Distributive numeral adverbs are formed by prefixing pur or phòng to the cardinal, as purthòm or phòngthòm, thrice. PRONOUNS. --The Personal Fronouns are, - 101 Person, - nē, I; ne-tum, ne-li, ne-li-lum, we, excluding the person addressed;
f-tum, i-li, we, including the person addressed. 2nd Person, - ndng, thou; nang-tum, ndng-li, ndng-li-tum, ye. 3rd Per l a, he, she, it; la-tum, they.
Palang, he, she ; alang-li, respectful; alang-atum, älàng-li-tum, they. These take the postpositions like nouns. The possessive prefixes have been already mentionedl; they are no, my, our; ràng, thy, your; la-, a-, his, her, its, their, The possessive prefix for the first person plural, including the person addressed, is é-or is 45 -
ē-chainong 7-haidi e-păchithukoilàng, áphu-thik-tä -reng e-ha . our-cows our cattle u-he-kas-caused-to-Will, over-and-above-that our skin our hide
o-kāpesā. ur-he-has-caused-to-smart. The Demonstrative Pronouns are läbångso, bdng so, this, pl. labangao-atum, these; hala, halabongso, that, pl. hälā-tum, halabangso-alunn, those. The syllable ha connotes distance, a dak-, ladak, bere ; hädak, there; ha ähèm chevoilo, he returned home from a distance.
Belative Pronouns, properly speaking, do not exist. Their place is taken by descriptive adjectival phrases. Thus, those six brothers who had gone to sell cow's flesh' is -
la chainòng-a-ok kejor-dam-ütunt kòrtë bing-theròk.
those cow's-flesh (o-sell-going-(pl.) brothers persons-nix. and those persons who bad carried cow's flesh (to market) returned home,' is - 9 là chainòng--ok keoàn-atum hèm chevoilõ.
those cow'e-flesh carriers home returned. It is to be noticed that in these sentences the adjectival descriptive clause precedes the noun. So also in Tenton ingchin-ani-pen kekök árlèng, the man whom Tenton bad tied with an iron chain.
There is a word, aling, which is sometimes called a relative pronoun; it seems, however, to be rather a distributive. I don't believe what he says' = la keningjë aling-ta ne kroi-kerē, literally, he speaking whatever, I believe pot; compare már aling-tā adim-tət-tot-la bi-non, the goods, each thing in its place setting down, put, i. e., put everything in its own place; ndng kedo-a ling, ne-ti doji, you staying wherever, I also will stay.
The only examples of ordinals ko formed are found in the Mikir osteohism (1876). In the fok-talos olamay periphrases are used which indicate that ordinals are not generally known. Thus, in mentioning five brother one after another, we have a long, the eldest; addbodm, the junior (between-coming); adalom-adun, the next to the junior; addkvamadun-låthot, the next to the next to the junior; and alb, the youngest.
