164 Essay toivards a Grammar of the Berber Language. 



" God," and to be confined to God and Christ. Tliis sense of tlie word is 

 not Hebrew, but Arabic. 



At/ aye sen. — ^i/uy, us; pronoun prefix j Esen, tell. Of the verb 

 Esen are found, 



Eseniy, I say ; Esennan, they spake ; Esyini, saying. 



It is probably a compound ; of Es or As, in ; and Eny, say : and it is 

 hardly distinguishable from Sin, to know. 



Anna z hi, precemur, precaremur. Root, Zal. Possibly, however, 

 Annazal is El-nasal, the act of prayer. 



I shon, he beckoned (i. 22), pointed with the finger, showed, taught. 



(2) Mac ay alia ov May alia, Mayal; when, forasmuch as, if. Macay 

 is used for If (iv. 3). The element tea (found also in en'ica, where ; teak, 

 who, which) seems to be Arabic. 



a jjs ?<//«?«, still a subjunctive, \\\ieEtsalla above j bat »j final in- 

 dicates second per.pl. So we find astaqqaram, ye shall call 3 attassiggam, 

 ye may behold ; oraQbaddom, do not begin (ye). 



Acishar, may become, shall become. Iskar is active or neuter, 

 KariffTTiaa and Karicrrrjv. The root is Akkar, to stand up. " Mary laid 

 her child in a manger :" isakr'it. " His parents went that they might pre- 

 sent him to the Lord :" adassakran. " They brought him that they might 

 do with him according to the custom of the law :" acsakran. The prefix 

 ao in verbs, indicates the Hebrew future (as we call it), in the third per. 

 masc. sing, and of the third per. pi. Ac or Ec has also another meaning 

 when prefixed to nouns, which will be noticed hereafter. 



Ismek, name of thee; — is pure Arabic. 



N attaboQ, epithet of the Spirit and of the gospel. Literally, it is 

 probably Na, of ; Tabod, holiness. In i. 35, " that holy thing" is expressed 

 by Aattabod ; elsewhere AttaboO. 



A ddusan, for Ac^usan, the same as A^yusan, It is a plural form, 

 and often occurs as such — Veniant. 



E nek, of thee. En or Na, of. 



(3) Ennay or Ennoy. — En, of; N«y, pron. sufi". first pers. pi. from 

 Nakni, we. 



I c ar a ^ answers to k'Kiovaiov, and we are unable to say how the Berber 

 translator understood it. 



Efk a y. — Efka, give ; y, (suff. pr.) us. The root efka must be dis- 

 tinguished, as pure Berber, ixoxafakk, noticed above. Efqa is also found 

 for Efka. 



Assayyi. — .^5, generally O*, day ; and ^^yi, this. Ayyi, when an 

 adjective, follows its substantive. When put absolutely, as a substantive 

 itself, it changes to Wayyi. A like distinction exists between Inni, that, 

 and JVinni, that person, that one. 



(4) A^foyay.—A^foy, [Arab.] forgive ; ay, us. 



