OF THE LEKNI LENAPfi INDIANS. 



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OF ADJECTIVE \ ERBS 



Able by tin Translator. — The authoi observes In re thai li«' hi sitati ii 

 long whether he should class adjectives bj themselves 01 include them 

 all under the head of verbs. On the one hand he could no) but observe 

 thai there are in this language pure adjectives, which receive different 

 forms when employed in the vi rbal Bense, Buch as umlit, wuKk, umhsto, 

 good, handsome, preltj ; irulilis.su, he, she, or ii is g I, pretty, <>r hand- 

 some, :irnl several others of which the author i:i\> - examples, a< li.r in- 

 stance (Class I.) in tabbeleechen, Bparkling, glittering, whence sabbeleu, 

 it sparkles, glitters, llui these are nol verj numerous. A great Dumber 

 of them are impersonal verbs in the third person of the singular of the 



present tense, while others are conjugated through va - persons, moods, 



and tenses, as appears fi the following examples. Be determined, at 



last, after presenting a few under the head of adjectives, above page 103, 

 to include them all in ;i lisl of verbs of this description, which the Trans- 

 lator has called adjective ueros, as he has denominated adverbial verb* 

 those « hich are formed by <>r derived from them. 1 1 is to !»■ regretted that 

 Che venerable missionarj ilul not more particularly distinguish the pure 

 adjectives from the others, and did not enter more full) into this subject 

 1 1 i- most certain thai all the adjectives of the Delaware language are not 

 verba ; but a rule or principle of discrimination is wanting, and the Trans 

 lator cannot undertake to establish it. 



The Author here exhibits ;i li-t of adjective verbs, divided into < l< \> □ 

 classes according to their termination, which in the three lii*i is that "i 

 tin- iliinl |" rson singular of the indii ative mood ol the firs) conjugation. 

 Tin first is in eo; the Becond in vox; the third in uoi 0; the fourth in on 

 r, r mi : the fifth m at. at; the sixth in to; the seventh in i; the eighth in 

 it. ik. it: the ninth in en; the tenth in <" 01 on; and the eleventh in in, 

 This last appears to belong to the first conjugation, and ii- t< rmination 



i- thai of the infinitive m I. It is conjugated through sev< ral moods, 



persons, ami tenses. 



UMECT1VI VERB! 



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' last l In i u. 



It b) I Mi j kacbl iol ».irm 



B ■ p, ii mi * I Atla t-i -initi'Hi|i. ii mi n"i •■■ 



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101 i 



heir thee not, md ■• 



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