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In Russ, delayou, delatel ; ichetayou, ichetatel ; 
slushayou, slushatel, 
German, Ich mahce, macher; Ich lese, leser ; 
Ich hore, zuhorer. 
English, J make, maker ; I read, reader; I hear, 
hearer. 
French, Faire, faiseur ; lire, liseur. 
Verb seems to indicate that a person is employ- 
ed about something—it asserts that something is 
done or suffered. Language has a sign to denote 
the thing about which the verb asserts its nomi- 
native is employed. It seems probable, that this 
sign was invented before the verb itself, which ap- 
pears to me only a noun so modified, as to denote 
that a person is employed about it. We find of 
consequence that many verbs are formed by adding 
a terminational sign to the mark, denoting the name 
of the action or passion its nominative is engaged 
in; thus, we have from amor, amare; labor, laborare; 
Liubov, liubit ; trude, trudit. Love, to love ; work, 
zowork, Liebe, lieben; arbeit, arbetten, 
There is a verbal termination which seems to in- 
dicate the name of the action of the verb, in a way © 
that supposes this action is still going on. This ter- 
mination is easily discovered in all languages, and 
is very much in use: thus— 
In Greek, capaiven, ropaivecie! TUYTYPEW, TUY= 
TUPYTIG: OsoLnEw, Ososuyose. 
