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-oil, undo, .-ell undoable ; -oloh liable to come uiulotie, 

 .halo happen, X: .hats, etselletsa cahiminate. .;/. ik. 



V. 



N.B. — The PVeiixIess class changes F into I'll. 



fa give away, not mere ii{a)-ea (/. inheritance; ui-lio-Ioli 

 Triller, pi. inc.. sc-fo-ntoanc, strong person --*' making 

 war "; s.hatlio muniticent ; ipUa ; -is give out cattle (;;/a. .) 

 to keep, - -cfs; .11 be generous (m- -E yellow wood tree ), - -v 

 -miss ; .iitS make miss, betray ; . noil retake gift, if^hrlla feed. 



fafa give away, carelessly, lie or be light ; -oh grow tall, {fafola 

 one well set up. sprain oneself), //. string of beads, thin con- 

 gregation. 



fd{le)? indeed (lit. there)? 



[fafara, i.q. fcfcra winnow | : -cis go here and there cjuicklv. 



|;V fafdla, l)ecome light | fafatsa sprinkle {l..iic showti" i.q. 

 lefai). 



fafiella. patch up thatch. 



falia, pour into, i.q., X faka stuff [ui-0 viaticum, .s-. l)ead) : -oil 

 take down, Z. pakitla (castrate horned cattle). 



fahla, dazzle (/. twins, triplet: [Sc-Aoa. in pi. lungs |, consump- 

 tion) ; .n offend each other (m.. olive tree) ; .-eh l)e scandal- 

 ized (s-0 'face) ; -ol remove trouble from eye or heart, 

 .crush grain on mill, ho re. add little more water in i>ot. 

 ..rain slightly, .hanya hold several spears, sticks. .ts 

 speak badly to D, but \l weep, stamp half -ripe corn, wet 

 half-ground do. -ohets bless by rubbing with sehok<K e.g., 

 with lion's skin, in the case of ihe lion clan. -i>loh to get 

 open ears, eyes; -oil imstoj), open. 



fdkd. ti> set in {s-0 hail?) 



fdla scrajxj (s. unburnt big corn pot made of nuid and mist, 

 s.hohOhO Venus), /-/" erasion, s-i scraper (of ox hide), s-o 

 iron scraper: also phako. fatsa ache (/. S]>linter, cf. mofacha 

 a scar), .n .tsa exterminate, pour out I)Iood, b\- flux, or 

 abortion in ist m<)nth. 



fald threaten (/. i.q. X ipliala vagabond). 



The following are ob.servations I venture to make, in supple- 

 ment to the Mabille-Dieterleu dictionary, and largely suggested 



by pjidemami : — 



faliineha, watch (A. l>link) ? connected with fdla.'^ 



* Other derivatives l-oa a bird, -iineh watch (N. blink), -ol 

 be loud (of a horn). To the glee of the French missionaries 

 in Basutoland, Meinhof has translated letSoala barbc/ as 

 Barhier, and derived from fala by his rules of phonetic chan,2:e. 

 1 venture to think, however, that tfie word is really so connected, 

 .the ' antenna?,' from which the fish takes its name, scraping 

 the ooze as truly as a barber does the face. If so, the German 

 scholar's philology was l)etter than his eyesight, and the quaint 

 mistake, while shewing ignorance of the ]>articular idioin. winild 

 testify to the surctiess of his i)liilo!ouical svstem. 



