Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language - Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Buckingham Smith
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Utzvorema, with pitahaya.
In this way decline tatas, crabapple,--gen. tatáse, dat. and acc. tatási, &c., also, porótz, wildcat, gen. porótze, dat. and acc. porótzi, &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._ Sóvei, obscure. _G._ Sóveique, _D. and A._ Sóvec, _V._ Sóvei, _A._ Sóvetze in, Sóveide, by, Sóveiquema, 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; dódor, men; hoit, woman, pl. hóhoit; déni, good, pl. dedéni. Some other words form their plural irregularly, as, doritzi, boy, pl. vus, applied to both sexes, though when intended only for males dódorus is used; hoquis, large girls, pl. hórquir; temátzi, big boy, pl. tetemtzi; to which when the particle _te_ is added it marks the absence of any of the other sex, as dodórte, men only; hohóite, |
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