por?tzi, &c.
To Adjective Nouns there has been an inclination to assign a separate
place, but they terminate _in a vowel_, and there appears to be
no reason why they should not go with substantives of the first
declension.
_N._ S?vei, obscure.
_G._ S?veique,
_D. and A._ S?vec,
_V._ S?vei,
_A._ S?vetze in,
S?veide, by,
S?veiquema, with obscure.
OF THE PLURAL.
15. Substantives, especially those animate of rational beings, usually
form the plural by doubling the first syllable, as, dor, man, or male;
d?dor, men; hoit, woman, pl. h?hoit; d?ni, good, pl. ded?ni.
Some other words form their plural irregularly, as, doritzi, boy,
pl. vus, applied to both sexes, though when intended only for males
d?dorus is used; hoquis, large girls, pl. h?rquir; tem?tzi, big boy,
pl. tetemtzi; to which when the particle _te_ is added it marks the
absence of any of the other sex, as dod?rte, men only; hoh?ite,
women only; h?rquirte, girls only. The declension of these plurals is
according to the rules before given.
OF KINDRED.
16. The language is remarkable for another peculiarity, which is, that
the females in many instances employ different words from the males:
the father says to his son, Nogn?t, to his daughter, M?rqua; the
mother to either says, N?tzgua; the son to the father says, Non?gua,
and the daughter says, M?sgua.
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