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GRAMMAR OF THE LANGUAGE 

 [eighth conjugation.] 



Future. 



Sing. Nulattowitsch, kulattowitsch, wulatto- I Plur. Wulattowunnentsch,kulattowihhirnotsch. 

 witsch wulattowunewotsch. 



The other Moods are not given. 



In the same manner with this verb the following are conjugated with 

 very little variation. 



Poniton, to let something be or remain. 



Pakiton, to throw away. 



Palaton, to earn, to acquire. 



Nipachton, to raise or set up something, as a 



post or pole. 

 Nitaton, to do or he able to do something. 

 Niskiton to dirty, to bewray. 

 Schellachton, to hang up. 

 Pagachtschaton, to fill. 

 Logillachton, to tear, to destroy. 

 Hatton, to place or fix something. 

 Gaton, to conceal, hide. 

 Apachtschiechton, to display, to spread, to setf. 



Maniton, to make*. 



Wuliton, to make something well. 



Palliton, to spoil something, to do it wrong. 



Matschiton, to do mischief. 



Kschiechton, to wash, clean. N'gieschiechton, 



kischiechton, guschiechton, I clean, thou 



cleanest, he cleans, or I wash, &c. 

 Gischiton, to make, prepare something. N'gis- 



chiton, I prepare, has all the tenses, but not 



the personal forms. 

 Pakantschiechton, to fulfil, complete. 

 Pakandhatton, to repair something, to make it 



whole. 



* Note by the Translator. — From this word probably comes manitto, manitou, God, the crea- 

 tor, the maker. Patamawos, another name for God, comes from pataman, to pray ; the one to 

 whom we pray. 



•f JVote by the Translator. — In the original manuscript there is in this place a number of para- 

 digms of verbs and parts of verbs not classed under their different conjugations, but mostly belong- 

 ing to the first. In the translation which I made for the Philosophical Society I iuserted them un- 

 der the head of additional verbs. On examining them afterwards more closely, I found several 

 were deficient in moods and tenses, and were clearly considered by the author only as materials 

 to be made use of in a revision of his work. Among them were repetitions of verbs already given, 

 but in some respects more complete, containing moods and tenses, which in the first examples 

 were wanting. It will be seen in the verbs, particularly of the first conjugation, that they are not 

 all carried through their different voices, forms, moods, and tenses, so that one often supplies the 

 deficiencies of the others. If the author had lived, it is probable that he would have brought his 

 work to a greater degree of perfection. This I could not undertake to do: but I thought it unne- 

 cessary to swell this grammar with these additional verbs and fragments of verbs thus inserted with- 

 out order or method. I therefore left out all that belonged to the first conjugation, already full 

 enough, contenting myself with extracting what was wanting in the first paradigms, in order to 

 complete them as much as possible. Of the other additional verbs I have inserted two or three 

 under their proper conjugations, leaving out the remainder, which 1 am satisfied was not intended 

 to remain in its present form. 



