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hence the variety of the forms of verbs ' to be ' ; for instance
13. -r-illi-ko; m., for instrurr~entality to bc in some act.
natkn bag means 'I see'; na korien bag, 'I see not'
nakulla bag, 'I saw'; na pa korien ba.g, 'I saw not.' This
last cannot be written n a lr u 11 a k or i e n b a g, 'I saw not,'
because the -k u 11 a mould affirm that the agent actually of his
own power did whatsoever the root affirms ; and &he root-form n a
n ~pkl&griniln ma1 bara bon, gatun tetti n~al
n, 'and they shall scourge him and put; him to
Anal.-Gatun, 'and'; w Blkorinfin, 'will instrumentally male'
him. The wB1 is from the English word wale, 'a mark in the
implies that the thing is actually seen, while the - k u 11 a added flesh'; - k o is the usual affix of agency ; -r i- nfin is the future tense
makes the meaning to be that it presents itself before you, and of instrumental action ; ma1 is the certainty thereof ; l?,zra,
you must see it, unless you are blind or do not esercise the 'they'; bon, 'him'; tetti, 'death'; wirrinfin, the future tense
facuity of sight; hence the privative affix, pa, must be used of instrumental violence ; cf. mirrin mib bi- ko, the ' ~l-ind
instead, to show that, although the object spoken of was there,
I could not see it, because it mas not presented to my sight.
Ex.-Yanoa, na-mai-ga yikora. This is a peculiar but ' 14. -r-ulli-ko; m., for insfrunzentality to act of ifsev.
common phraseology througllout all verbs, and is hardly translate- Ex.-1. Turuliin tia topi g- k o, ' the mosquito is sting in^,
piercing me'; tur a b 011 w arai- t o, ' the spear speared, pierced,
him'; turinfin banug lancet-o, 'I mill pierce thee with the
lancet'; turanitn, ' will pierce'; banug, conjoined dual case,
'I-thee'; lancet-o, the English word 'lancet' with o the
affixof agency. 2. Niumoa ba gurrBug-kan gurrulliko,
to the l~hrase ' yon look but you will
gurrabhbilla bon, 'he who hath ears to hear, let him hear.'
determined not to see.' But, on the other Here the ear is the instrument that perceives of its own power.
Anal.-2. Niu woa, the emphatic personal pronoun, 'he' ; b a,
a particle ; gurr&ug, 'the ear' ; -kan, a personal particle ;
gurr &u g kan-therefore means 'a person who is eared, who has
ears' ; gurrabfinbi lla, the imperative, 'permit to hear' ; b on,
'him'; gurrulliko, 'to hear'.
15. -t-illi-Lo; m., for the thing to act, as a verbal noz61~.
-bitntinfin koiwon to, 'the rain mill cause it to
Anal.-P,oai, the bare form of the verb 'to grow'; bito, is the
active permissive form of the verb ' to suffer w permit the act,'
'to let actively'; -tinfin, the future-tense form of the verb;
koimon, 'rain'; -to, an affix, to show that the word to which it
is affixed is the agent that purposes to act. In the sentence
koimon-Do ba tin, 'it rains,' the ba is the aorist of the verb
'to he doing' some act; tin, is the present tense of tillilro, and
when used as a preposition means ' from, on account of it'; e.g.? ,
fetti-tin, 'on account of death'; gali-tin, 'on account oi
this'; but 'from, i.e., out of,' is birug; as, Thydney-birug,
'from Sydney'; London-birug, ' from London'.
16. -t-elli-ko ; m., to indicate itself, as a verbal qzoun.
EX.:-1. Yantin bara piriwal bitntelliko, 'for all 11-ho
exalt themselves.' 2. Moron ta kat6a-kanun tetti kabirug,
' the resurrection from the dead.'
i Anal.:-1. Yantin, 'all'; bara, 'they'; piriwil, 'chief '; bkn, ':*,
'topermit' actively; t elliko, 'for it to be' as indicated. Moron,