“Spotted taˊɪrg̣ɪn”: it “covers the skin with large spots of a light, ashen color, often over the whole body, including the face and the hair of the head. It does not seem to affect the health” (1-065). A man named Tuˊrkew who had it was called Keliˊlɪ-Tuˊrkew, “Spotted Tuˊrkew”, and was well known in the Anui country for his piebald hair; at fifty he was “still active for his time of life”.

Identification: vitiligo. Depigmented macules going confluent over the body, health untouched, and white hair in the patches — the piebald head is the tell.

The modifier is spelled twice and differently — Kalêˊlɪ- in the disease name, Keliˊlɪ- in the man's — and that is vowel harmony, not an inconsistency. Chukchee harmony is dominant–recessive: a dominant morpheme raises every recessive vowel in its word, i to e and e to a. The head noun taˊɪrg̣ɪn is dominant, so the stem surfaces raised when compounded with it; Tuˊrkew is recessive and leaves it alone. One word, harmonising to what it is attached to.

The book names it under taˊɪrg̣ɪn, though the two are opposite processes; see that entry.