[ Footnote 33: ] Really “him,” but Chinook, like Latin or French, possesses grammatical gender. An object may be referred to as “he,” “she,” or “it,” according to the characteristic form of its noun.
[ Footnote 34: ] This analysis is doubtful. It is likely that -n- possesses a function that still remains to be ascertained. The Algonkin languages are unusually complex and present many unsolved problems of detail.
[ Footnote 35: ] “Secondary stems” are elements which are suffixes from a formal point of view, never appearing without the support of a true radical element, but whose function is as concrete, to all intents and purposes, as that of the radical element itself. Secondary verb stems of this type are characteristic of the Algonkin languages and of Yana.
[ Footnote 36: ] In the Algonkin languages all persons and things are conceived of as either animate or inanimate, just as in Latin or German they are conceived of as masculine, feminine, or neuter.
[ Footnote 37: ] Egyptian dialect.
[ Footnote 38: ] There are changes of accent and vocalic quantity in these forms as well, but the requirements of simplicity force us to neglect them.
[ Footnote 39: ] A Berber language of Morocco.
[ Footnote 40: ] Some of the Berber languages allow consonantal combinations that seem unpronounceable to us.
[ Footnote 41: ] One of the Hamitic languages of eastern Africa.