Iņupiatun Eskimo Dictionary - SIL International

Appendix 8
Independent Pronouns
The bases described in the following appendix behave like nouns and accept the suffixes that
indicate noun possession, including the absolutive or relative case endings. Each of these words is
in the truest sense a ‘pro-noun’: it points to a name of a person or thing, but is not the name itself.
1. Personal pronouns have their own bases, uva- and ili-.
Suvaata iliäich savakpat ugluvak?
Why are they working today?
Ilaan iáisautiniàai atrikusautitigun.
He taught by means of parables.
Ilaa piqaqtuaq akuqtullaaàisiruq.
He who has will receive more.
Uvaäauruäa, iqsiñasi.
It is I, don’t be afraid.
Singular Dual Plural
First Abs./Rel. Uvaäa Uvaguk Uvagut
Second Abs./Rel. Il[i]vich Iliptik Ilipsi
Third Abs. Ilaa Iliäik Iliäich
Rel. Ilaan Iliäiknik Iliäisa
2. Indefinite Pronouns express ‘all, each’ with the iluqaq while the base word iáa- expresses
‘some, any.’
Iáitchuàigisivisa iluqaàmiä tamatkua atuumaaqsikpata?
How will we recognize when all of those [things] are beginning to happen?
Tuquâiàmigun iáauraaàiiksitlugik iluqaaknik Agaayyutmun.
Through his death, he reconciled both of them with God.
Iluqapta paptaakkaukapta…
When we all were baptized …
Iluqani timin qaummaaàikpan, iáaäa taaqtuamiisuäaqani, …
If your whole body is light, without any part being dark, …
Iluqapsi pituiàayaàaa natmaktini inaaniñ minàuiqsiaàvium uvluani.
Each of you would loosen his donkey from his place on the day of rest.
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