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100 AX AK'STZALIAN LAN GUAGE.
' life '; t a, ' it is '; ka, ' is ' ; -tka, the past tense of tel liko, 'it
actually was ' as indicated ; li a-nun, ' will be' in the state men-
tioned; tetti, 'death' ; ka, 'is'; biru g, 'from, out of.' The
sentence thus meails 'the future becoming alive again from the
dead'; cf. yanoa, tetti katCa kun, 'let be, lest it become
c?ead'; yanoa, tetti burr6aIrun, 'let be, lest it die.' Panoa
is l~rohibitory of the mallller of beiag.
17. -w-illi-ko; n~., to be in ?notion to ; to fenil fo~~ai*tls;
to incline fozca~cls.
Ex. :-Uwil koa bag, ' I rrish to move, I tend towards, I incline
torrarclb'; ta-unTil ko a b a g, 'I ~ish to eat'; ta is from
t a-liilliko, 'for-to eat'; waitn wa-umil koa bag, 'I now wish
to depart'; ' I intend to depsrt '; tanan b i IT olla wait a, ko s
bag u wa-umil, ' I wish to go'; lit., 'approach thou or come, in
or~ierthatIlllaydepart'; miya-uwil lioa bon bag, 'I mishto
tell him'; wiya is from wiyell~ko, 'to speali, to utter a
suurld,' &c.
IS. -wir-rilli-ko ; m., to act zvith inaf~+uat~nfal nzotiofi ;
as, fo ki7ock zcith a~zyfhiny ; to zvhip ~~Jlog zcifh anything
; to smife zvith the $sf; to stir zvitJt o stick;
to L~O any act of ?12ofion by aiizy i~tsf~unzentcrl iineans.
Ex.:-IVirrill6fin bara mapara, 'they smote their
brcasts '; wirrillian~in ~irrillikaan6-to, ' nrill weep ~ith
the s~veeper', ' will srab with a snab'; lit., 'millki~ock away with
that which kiloclis away '; because, when the blacks srreep, they
knock the ground ~ ith boughs, and so remove the rubbish.
19. -w-olli-ko ; m., to act nail i~zove of pzrrpose.
Ex. :-Uwollili o, ' to come, to go, to move away '; lit., 'to be
in a state of motion and action,' with power of purpose to effect
change of place; vaita na-nun bag England kolag, 'I~ill
depart and mill go to England'; tanan noa uwollin. England
ksbi ru g, ' he approaches coming from Englaud '; ' he IS
comiljg from England '; u lv 6 a k a n~ n b a 4, ' I will come again'
(tanan, understood); uw6n lianun bag, 'I mill go again'
(waita, understood); yanoa, uma yikora, 'donotqo'; uwolli
ban liora, ' do not be moring aray,'sc., hither or thither.
20. -v-elli-Lo; m., fo 68 in a certain manner of actiol7.
Ex. :-I. Gakoi y eililro, ' to act in a certain manner of personification';
'to feign to be another person'; gakoiyellikan,
'one who feigns to be another'; 'a spy, a deceiver'; wonts
nos ba gurra gakoi~a barunba, 'but he perceived their
craftiness'; lit., ' whereas he knew their deception,' their feigning
to be just men; yanti bi miyella, 'thou shalt say thus', in
THE PET.
anti bag miya, 'I said so'; yakoai bin
yeili-birug, 'theclock
has ceased to strike'; lit., 'the clock has' been and continues in the
anner of being now ' ceased' from a certain manner of
'to permit to speak'; wiyai-
o answer'; wiya-pimulliko,
; miya-pai-yelliko, 'to de-
him'; wiyellin noa, 'he is
are conversing'; miyh b a,g,
clock strikes '; wiy a, 'say ';
ed to ask a person if he mill be or do; e.g., wlya,
li miyellinfin? 'say, shall we two converse?
The liormation of Wof*cls.
arr is a word which the aborigines now use in imitation of
ade by a saw in sawing; with the verbal formative-
x -bulliko, it becomes yarr-bulliko, ' to be in the act of
ing by its o m act the sound of yarr'; or, in English, 'to
' Yag is another introduced word, formed from the
g- gullilco, ' to compel to saw '; this last form
rgo all the changes given above for yarr-bulliko;
very verb in the infinitive form.
o-bulliko, 'tosharpellasam'; yag-ko-bulli-ta, 'the
g of the saw' ; pag-ko-bulli-kan, 'one who shar-
saw'; yag-ko-bulli-kann6, 'that which sharpens
; ' a file '; and so on.
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