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96 AN AUSTEALIAE LASGUAGE.
5. -1-iko ; m., for the pu?.ip?se of initiating the action of
the aerb.
.Ex :-Tetti kolag bag, -1 am about todie'; n-aita kolag
bag, ' I am about to depart'; pirival kolag noa: 'he is
about to be king'; worolvai kolag bara, 'they are about to
fight '; tanan bag miyeliiko, 'I come to speak,' 'I am come
for the purpose of speakiiig'; tanan bag ~riya-uwil koa
banug, ' I am come in order to speak to thee,' ' I am come that
1 may speak to thee'; wiya-umil koa banu g. 'I wish to speak
to thee'; gurrulli ta, 'it is the act of hearing'; gurrulliko,
'for the purposc of the act of hearing'; 'to hex, to hearken.'
6. -m-illi-ko; m., for the pzcrpose of the i~zitiation of
the act of causation.
E.Z. :-K a i: u mi 11 i ? ti a, ' come and hel-p me '; lit., 'come
exercise causative porn-er on me '; umil_lja bi ti a, el thou
me, assist me'; i.e., ' cause the exercise of potver to me. "9
7. -m-ulli-ko ; m., for cnzcsaiion and efecti~se potoer.
Ex.:--Tarig ka-mulliko, 'to mix'; lit., 'for-to causeto be
across and across'; gurra-nlulla bon, ' cause him to hear
or know'; ka-mullala noa yantin-birug umulli-birug,
'he rested from all the work '; lit., 'he caused himself to be
froin all, from the act of causation and effectire power.'
Uma noa yantin tara, 'he made all things'; um&n bag
unni, 'I make this'; nu-mulli ko, ' to make a personal effort,
to try, to attempt '; pirral-mulla bon, 'urge him, constrain
him'; lit., 'be hard at him'; pirral umulla bon, 'make him
hard, cause him to be hard'; pirriral-mullin bon, 'strengthen-
ing hin~'; na-muubilliko tia umulla. ' cause me to be per-
mitted to see'; liamunbilla bin nakilliko, 'let it be per-
mitted to cause thee to see'; equivalent to, ' receive thy sight.'
S. -11; m., preseltt time.
Ex.-Unni, 'this' present; unnoa, 'that' present; untoa,
'that other' present; unnug, 'that,' as an object, present there;
unti, 'this present place ' here; un ta, ' that place' spoken of;
pita1 lian~n bi, 'thou wilt be joyful'; pitll banun bi,
' thou wilt rejoice.'
9. -g-ulli-ko ; m., for one fo act with efectivepower.
Ex.-Bu g-bu g-gulla, 'kiss,' thnt is, 'effect a kiss'; bug-
bug-kimunbilla bon, 'let him kiss'; bug-bug gatoa,' it
is I who kiss'; bug-bug-gan bag,'I kiss'; bug-bug-gatoara,
' that which is kissed ' ; t e tti bu g-gulli li o, ' to effect death by
personal power'; 'to kill'; t e tti bug- ga bon, 'he is killed '; lit.,
'some person hath killed him'; tetti bug-ga bon bag, 'Ihave
killed him.'
THE KEY.
10. -p-illi-ko ; m., to act, exckcdi~ag the idea of cnz~sation.
Ex.-U p-illiko, ' to exercise personal power,' without causation
; up - ai - g a, ' to exercise personal power,' without completion;
pai-pilliko, 'to seem,' 'to appear'; pai-piililro maraito,
'for the spirit to appear'; pai-pBa Iloa Eliath, 'Elins
he appeared'; pai-p6a bon a gelo, ' an angel appeared to him.'
, 11. -p-ulli-ko ; m., 1'0 exemise yotoer, bzct excluili~~g the
idea of eflecf.
Ex.-1. Up-ulliko, ' to exercise personal power,' esc!usire
OF effect; up611 bag unni, 'I do this'; ul16n bag gali-lio, 'I
use this' ; upulli~i bag gali-ko broom-lro, ' 1 an1 s~veeping
with the broom'; Zit., '1 am exercising personal power with the
broom,' esclusiye of effect; in gali-ko broom-ko upulliu
murrarag, 'the broom is sweeping well,' tho broo~u is the
instrumental agent; upullin bag gatoa-bo kipni-to, 'I
am anointing myself with ointment,'; lit., 'I am doing myself
- with grease,' or ' I am greasing myself.' 2. Upulla biilouil
kopurr6 kon6in kakilliko, 'paint her with red to be pretty.'
3. lionbin ta upatoara bountoa, 'she is prettily done'; lit.,
she is pretty that which is done.' 4. ICabo-kabo galitill upaoarin
kopurrin, 'stay, stay, on accouut of the painting red.'
Anal. :-2. UJJ~J!~, the imperative, ' do ' ; binonn, the conoiued
dual pronoun; ' thou-her ' ; bxuyrd ' red,' n ith the
nst,rumental sign o affixed ; ko n &in, 'pretty'; k alr illilio, the
bV'to be,' ' for the purpose of being.' The sentence then
am, 'do thou her with red, that she may be pretty.'
. KonBin ta, 'itispretty'; upatoara isaco~npounclof the
erb and means ' that which is doi~e ' ; b ount o a, the emphatic
pronoun, 'she it is ~~116,' 'she who' is emphatically so.
bo-kabo, equivalent to 'stay'; gali-tin and the two
Ilowing it are all iu the ablative case and mean, ' on acthis,
on account of the doing, on account of the red.'
12. -r; n~., 92~gafioi~.
Ex.-Murrarig ta unni, 'this is good'; kea~ai, murraig
korien, 'no, it is not good'; lripai ta unni, 'this is
ctually fat'; tararan, 'it is not'; this is used as the llepntioll
thing, but not of a quality. Keamaran bag murlarik
en, 'I am not comfortable.'
d.:-Kei\varscn, the present tense of the verb 'to be,' in
tate of negation ; bag, the re~bal proxouu ' I '; xlurrar ag
d'; korien, the aorist of negation of the ~erb 'to be
. The'sentence thus means, ' I am not in a state of being
d.' The two negatives here are essential and gorern one
ther; they do not destroy each other, as in English;
s arises from the very nature of the Iai~guage, mhich can exress
actuality, negation of actuality, and negation absolutely;