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NOVEMBER, 1907.]
The interrogative prefix ka, ká, kan, has been already explained and when attached by inflexion to ôt, be, together with an inflected suffix of direction, it produces a carious and common set of forms of question and answer.
k-od-de? k-ò-lde?
Interrogatives of Direction,
Root ôt, be, plus prefix ka for the question, plus suffix ta of "any direction" inflected with suffix of definite direction,
be east?
be west ? be downstairs ?
k-o-ngde?
RECORD OF THE LANGUAGES OF SAVAGES.
be?
be north? be upstairs?
be
above? be south ? below?
be
tai (hand)
lah (foot) koi (head)
nang (ear) chaka (face) ngë (voice) mat (surface)
mat (eye)
ok (skin)
k-ò-hare?
enkana
woman
k-ò-itde ?
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k-ò-inde?
Examples,
Q. Kodde ta ane dak? Any water there ? A. Rakat. Q. Kolde ta ane dak? Any water up there? up north? up north. A. Ngalde. It is up here.
Q. Kongde ta ane dak? Any water down there? down south? A. Kôngde. It is down
there; down south. A. Ngange. It is down here; down south.
Q. Kôhare ta ane dak? Any water to the east? A. Kôhare. There to the east. A. Ngahae. Here to the east.
Q. Koitde ta ane dak? Any water downstairs? to the west ? A. Koitde. There to the west. A. Ngashe (and ngaiche). It is down here to the west.
Q. Koinde ta ane dak? Any water at the landing-place? A. Koinde. It is there at the landing-place. A. Ngaine. Here at the landing-place. enkòiña man
Q. Kakat? Q. Be? (Q. Are there any men and women here ? In the above instance kakat is a case of a double prefix ka+ka +(6) t.
ta itá A. Kakat. c. i. r. here A. Be. A. There are.)
be at landing place?
t. Use of Terms for Parts of the Human Body as Supplementary Radical Affixes of Differentiation,
There is.
A. Kolde. It is up there;
Words relating to some parts of the body are used as supplementary radical suffixes both of differentiation and transfer to indicate action or relation naturally referable to those parts. Thus :
hodh (starve)-nga-tai
ō (go)-nge-lah
kenya (a leaf35)-nga-kōi (head) hima (bequest)-nga-nang
oreh (before)-chakd opyap (overhear)-nga-ngé ettat (polish)-mat
date (water)-mat ettaich (husk)-nga-ok
-tai (hand) refers to what is done by the hand or by force: -láh (foot, leg), to movement by the foot-koi (head), to anything relating to the head or top: -nang (ear), to what can be heard: chaka (face), to what is done before one or in the presence: -nge (voice), to speech: -mat (surface, eye), and -ok (skin, back), to what is outside, on the surface. E. g.,
Supplementary Radical Suffixes Derived from the Parts of the Body.
(make to starve) (to) leave
(to) cover a pot (advice)
(to) advance
(to) eavesdrop
(to) wipe
(to) wipe a tear (to) flay
(To be continued.)
38 Kenya is the name of the plant which produces the leaves used as the covering of pots for steaming pandanus
paste.
