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from that. Some Verbs have a double future, one prox- 

 imate, the otlier more remote — v. g. — If I am near the end 

 of my life I have no more need of medicine — deaa'atonhatai, 

 f^eskasaonA^iic/iias, tiiis is an example of the proximate 

 future of the paradigma s. Wiien 1 am at tlie end of my 

 life I shall repent of having sinned, cskva^endi^enratakva 

 iParihnanderaJde, atonhaten. I is prefixed to certain words 

 as i,e — I go; i ^atonic — 1 say; iortdtss — it rains. — To some 

 M-ords »uo is prefixed as to those before mentioned, to 

 others at the pleasure of the speaker, as one says, hatoxa 

 — he sees ; or ihaloxa. It is prefixed lo the first and second 

 persons of the irregular verbs of the second conjugation in 

 are as indare, istare, hcmdai-e — I remain, you remain, he 

 remains, unless it takes before it the augment, «. or e. or 

 the marks of relation, ///ftf, ^aehue, he, xe, S)C. in one word. 

 It is always lost after ie, fle, xe, axi, and other like marks 

 of relation ; also after the augments a, ai, e. But it is pre- 

 fixed to the particles reduplicative, and to greater binary 

 numerals, unless motion be expressed, v. g. one says, 

 tendite akare, mhnkk, ih^enha, ekndak, iskvatare — to 

 three years, add four months or moons, it is three years and 

 four months since. But one would say, s/iutulennion or 

 $kntsliimdcnltion — it is a year ago. Tendite, skondcnuiuii — 

 it is two years ago ; achhick, eskondennion — it is three years 

 ago. E. not I. (by reason of the motion, which is signified 

 by the word //m/«nn/o/i — lo wait, or ketch, which is joined 

 to the reduplicative,) signifies, to be a year ago. But if 

 you prefix to the latter also any other numbers it will have 

 the same signification as above — it is always placed after 

 (iHvti, a*, (inttiihiito xui — he sees all things. 



