OF THE LENNI LENAPE INDIANS. 

 [OF \ EBBS.] 







IRREGULAR VERBS, 



OR, VERBS THAT ARE DEFICIENT IN PERSONS <>R TENS1 S 



.Vote by the Translator. — These are chiefly of the class which we rail 

 impersonal; but the] do not all belong t<> it. as will be Been by the es 

 amples. Th( refore the denomination of the author has been preserved 



( )f those which an- called irregular 111 the ancient ami modern languages 



of Europe, that i- to -ay, ot' which the several tenses ami n Is appi 



to have sprung from different roots, as in Latin awn, cram, fui. in French 

 i///</-. j( vais, j'irai. and in English I go, I went, he gives no examples; 

 and probably there are none in this language. It is a fact worthy of 

 some attention. Among the examples the author had included some of 

 the adjective verbs hereafter mentioned, which we have transferred to 

 their proper head. 



EXAMPLES OF IRREtU I.AR VERBS. 



Soke) an, it rains 



mrep, it rained 

 Sokelantschi, it will rain 

 Solcelanke, it it tain* 

 Si.k.'l.mki'iM It. when it will rain 



SokeUnkpanna, if it bad rained. 



K'-rlill.iti, It r.mi- h.tr. I 



K'flchilaneepi n r.iim-i) barf 



Popetelan. it mini now and then, by -hower*, 



Popetelanop, it rained mm md ttien 

 Uhacquot, ii lin i exti ndil 



a large surface r.t country) 

 tchkikalaD, it elects. 



it -now" 

 W in. .-[., it mowed 



w hi htechf, it w ill -now 



w ioeke, it or « hen it -now* 

 u inekpanne, it >' bad mowed 



Topan, i' freeze* .i whib 

 Topanecp, it did freeze i wbid 



K'scb ik hi, ili.- wind blown hard 

 l\ it bakaneep, the wind bk w barf 

 K'achachinke, *\ ben 01 a it bio \ hard 

 Inn-, eou ii' kachakan, it will Mow 



hard 

 ApitchanehelleUi it blow - i eontran j wind 



(pitch , they bare itiary wind 



In. ii. the wind coma from i.i pa tl 



Wini.!-. benneep, the wind did come from, 

 Wnndachinke, when <n II the wind i 



Mowbhaquat, th< up, Ii getunf 



from ii ■ 

 Mo chbaqu u bleep, the rivei eli 1 ed np 



M k . ili.- m .-I drift 



M . 1 1 i.|Miri lirn. the wall i i- IhlIi 

 m . h "('ii' i I" Dei p, thi wate waa 

 m - J. iqi i. ■ hinke, win n of the watei i- h 

 juti chinkp .inn', when "i a tl" 



>>, h,,.! t .-.ii In^li 



I ien, the watei if wing 



ilecbeneep, llM ^ iti i waa >■ ring, 



Yitr by the Trantlalnr— Tln« Wrorf la compounded "I Utmtt •••■ ■ 

 iture lerminalioo tsch. 



