Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language - Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Buckingham Smith
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Some ending in _t_ while they form the genitive in _te_, part with a vowel, as follows: _N._ Arit, Ant. _G._ Arte, _D. and A._ Arta, _V._ Arit; _A._ Artze, in, Arde, by, Artema, with ant. Nónoguat, father, belongs to this declension, and forms the genitive nónauhte; but when preceded by a possessive pronoun, it loses the final guat, as has been stated, and the termination is left in _o_, to form the genitive in the first declension, as, no, my, no nónoque, of my father, which rule applies equally to other names of kindred. Sometimes an ablative is formed in _u_, as teópatu, in the church, from teópa, hecátu, in the shade, from hecát. Substantives of the Third Declension end in _s_, _r_, _z_, and form the genitive by the addition of _e_, and the accusative by _i_. _N._ Utzvor, Pitahaya. _G._ Utzv[=o]re, _D. and A._ Utzvori, _V._ Utzvor, _A._ Utzvortze, in, Utzvorde, by, |
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