1889-90.] 



THE D^NB LANGUAGES. 



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iterative particle suggesting that the action is repeated ; hwe' refers to the 

 action as being in its incipient stage ; shcsn means " song," and when in- 

 corporated in a verb it indicates that singing accompanies the action ex- 

 pressed by the verbal root ; dee is called for by sheen, said particle always 

 entering into the composition of verbs denoting reference to vocal sounds ; 

 thee is the secondary radical of the uncomposite verb thizkret, inflected 

 from //// for the sake of euphony with 7ic€z, the pronominal crement of the 

 whole compound, the n of which is demanded by the previous hwe': ce 

 characterizes the present tense, and z the first person singular of the third 

 conjugation ; while krok is the main radical altered here by the usitative 

 from the normal form kret, and is expressive of locomotion habitually 

 executed on four feet or on all fours. 



To enable the student to penetrate still further into the synthetism of 

 the D^n^ verbs, I give below lists of the principal word-formative par- 

 ticles, together with examples illustrative of their use. 



The following are postpositions with regard to their complement — 

 noun or pronoun — and prepositions relatively to the verbal stems to 

 which they are prefixed : — 



*When in connection with the indefinite completive pronoun ho, and sometimes the personal 

 pronoun ii, the x, k, of this and the following postpositions are inflected into x^ and kw. 



