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reply nén, or néfl na, for ‘mine’; 125‘]. or kél 7m, ‘it is thine‘; and negum or flegum m1, ‘it is his.’ The possessive compound nouns and pronouns, Nominatives of address, in every day use, drop their termination un; and we find 110016, my father, instead of nootczm, though ‘your father’ and ‘their father’ take the full termination 1200160200712, and ootcool; the same remark applies to n’leélc, my mother; n’kwe‘y'é my sister, and ukén, my brother; the Vocative case is also abbreviated in these family terms, so that we find n00 ! O my father.

COMPOUND OF NOUN AND POSSESSIVE PRONOUN DECLINED. Singular. Nom. 71001:, my father. Dat. nootmk, with, in, by, etc., my father. Acc. naotcool, my father. [Obj.] Voc. ((112) mm, 0 my father. Abs. naolcok my absent or dead father.

Neg. mogwd nootcenook, not my father. Term. nootczl, my father, [at end of sentence]

Elegéwz'l, A KING, COMBINED WITH PRONOUNS.

Noni. Sing. Present Positive.

Ist Per. ’ntlegém, my present king. 2nd Per. u/ctdegdm, your king, 3rd Per. utelegizmel, his king.

Nom. Plu. Present, Posessive.

Ist [Inc.] ’nlelegdménen, our king, [thine and mine] Ist [exc.] uktelegdmmoo, our king, [his and mine.] 2nd uttelegizmoow. your king. 3rd ootelegdmool, their king. The word becomes Eldgwidak, a former king, and is inflected to express futurity, negation, etc., through all the forms.

The Verb.

In Micmac, as in all languages to a greater or less degree, the verb is the word, first last and always; it seems almost impossible to deal