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— to cut a piece of an nniinal for anyone, derived from the 

 relative, ^aatiaj — to cut an animal into pieces. Moreover 

 the verb is not said to be relative unless it regards a living 

 object, but is of either paradignia, according to the idea to 

 be expressed by it, whether passive or active. When 

 active, it does not require the paradignia ch, as hajiien- 

 daeuk — he cultivates her acquaintance ; but when passive, 

 the paradignia s, as hochiendacnk — his acquaintance is 

 cultivated by her. 



The passive is formed from the active, either by the 

 encrease of the initial at, or end; or by changing the con- 

 jugation of the active verb into another. Thus ata^seti — to 

 be concealed, from ase'ti — to conceal. Endis/iaric' hiaiy 

 from erinharic' heui — to make a garment ; i'c/umdi — to dress 

 one's self, or, to be dressed. Of the first conjugation, 

 aachondi. Of the second, to accommodate. 



The reciprocal is formed from the passive by the addition 

 of the initial encrease at, atuta' stUi — to be hid between, 

 to hide one's self. 



The neuter is that which docs not signify action, as, 

 auiio»/t>iundi — to be sick ; of the paradignia s, enheon — to 

 die. 



The common is that which has a double signification ; 

 one simple, the other relative, as, onnhe — to live, and to 

 give life to any one. 



The deponent 1*^ that which having a jiassive sound, has 

 an active signification as atcun/mndi — to hire work- 

 men ; from annliundi — to govern, in like manner uteiensti 

 — to learfi ; iijuiensti — to teach. 



'I'he relative-passive is that which may have a relative 

 ■signification having a passive sounci, as, aten^dutnn — to 

 relate, from ,and(jton — to relate; alu' ronton — to be inform- 



