Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language - Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Buckingham Smith
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everlasting; cúne, married, f.; cacúne, not married; húbi, married,
m.; cahúbi, not married, etc. Those ending in sári, and scor, mark a bad, or vicious quality, as, dedensári, tobacco-smoker, from déinan, I suck; and hibesári, gluttonous, from hibáan, I eat; nehrisári, talker, from néhren, I talk; capasári, old rags, from capát; baníscor, weeper, from báanan; cotzíscor, sleeper, from cotzom; dióscor, vagabond, from dion, I walk, or vacosári, which has the same signification, from vácon. The termination, sguari, is used in this sense: dotzi, old man; dotzísguari, very old man; hóit, female of middle age; hoísguari, very old woman. DECLENSION. Substantives of the First Declension form their genitive in _que_, and usually are such as terminate in a vowel. _Nominative_, Siibì, hawk, _Genitive_, Sìiibíque, of hawk, _Dative_, Siibt, to hawk, _Accusative_, Siibìe, hawk, _Vocative_, Siibì, hawk, _Ablative_, Sibítze, in \ Sibíde, by > hawk. Sibíquema, with / The plural of substantives (requiring a special notice) will be treated of hereafter. Substantives of the Second Declension form their genitive in _te_ and _t_. |
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