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I.
The Use of the Prefixes to the Boots.
These special radical prefixes, by some process of reasoning forgotten by the people and now obscure, but not at all in every case irrecoverable, divide the parts of the human body into Seven Classes; thus, without giving a full list of the words in each class
Radical Prefixes in Words denoting Parts of the Human Body by Classes. CLASS. ENGLISH, BALAWA. BOJIGYɅB.
BEA.
JUWAI.
Head Brains
Neck
Heart
II.
III.
IV.
V.
.VI.
VII.
Hand
Wrist
Knuckle
Nail
Foot
Ankle
Mouth
Chin
Tongue Jawbone
Lip
(Shoulder
Thigh
Knee
Shin
Belly Navel Armpit
(Eye
Eyebrow Forehead
Ear
Nose Cheek
Arm
Breast
Spine
Leg Buttock
Hip
Waist
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
0.
ot
ong
âka
ab
i-, ig
ig-, ik
i
ar
-040
ôt
my your his
ǝng
aka
ab
id
ar
ote
(80 & 80)-'8 (that one)'s (this one)-'s
ong.
ab
ir
ST
ôto
head, hand, heart.
ôn
Öko
те
[AUGUST, 1907.
ra
KÔL.
ôto
d. Prefixes to Words referring to the Human Body.
Next, in obedience to their strong anthropomorphic instinct, the Andamanese extend their prefixes to all words in the other Groups, when in relation to the human body, its parts, attributes and necessities, and thus in practice, refer all words, capable of such reference, to themselves by means of prefixes added to their roots. In an Andamanese Language one cannot, as a matter of fact, say "head," "hand," "heart," one can only say
ôn
er.
