[Oct. 2, 



1. I shall have wished, gua xta nee. 



2. Thou wilt have wished, gua xca nee. 



3. He will have wished, gua xpi nee. 



The pronouns here employed are neither the ordinary per- 

 sonals nor possessives (though the Othomi admits of a posses- 

 sive conjugation), but are verbal pronouns, strictly analogous to 

 those found in various other American languages. Their radicals 

 are : 



I, d — 



Thou, g — . 



He, it, b — . 



In the present, the first and second are prefixed to what is 

 really the simple concrete form of the verb, y-nee. In the past 

 tenses the personal signs are variously united with particles de- 

 noting past time or the past, as a, the end, to finish, ma and 

 hma, yesterday, and the prefix x, which is very noteworthy as 

 being precisely the same in sound and use which we find in the 

 Cakchiquel past and future tenses. It is pronounced s/i (as in 

 sftove) and precedes the whole verbal, including subject, object, 



