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if one went upon the ice. 



The aorist is never joined to a negative, as, one does 

 not say, teajiketat — 1 liavc not carried ; but teaa^aketak. 



Note lo. — In composition certain words beginning with 

 ,r/,rt, change the tirst a into on thus one says, onnhon^an- 

 yiondi — to plot against the life of any one, from omihe—' 

 life, and a/inondi — to labour. 



2o. In verbs of motion derived from the negative futures, 

 the present and aorist end in e but the ftiture and the 

 personal and imperative moods in a, as, ^atrendaendCf 

 atrcjikaeude, and heatrendacnda, satrendaenda, ac/iiatren- 

 denda — I go, you will go, you go to pray to God, it is or it 

 was necessary that you should go to pray to God. When 

 any verb immediately after a has k it is the sign of the 

 second conjugation, not of the first, as, ta^aahetsatonhons 

 — pray for us, h which is immediately after a beginning 

 a word indicates that it is of the second conjugation. 



3o, The particle smce, whether it is expressed in French 

 sentences, or understood, is expressed by the Hurons by 

 particles of locality, ct or ca7, and by the particle of redu- 

 plication. T. as, tctilttondccho)idi — since the earth was 

 nuule. Tekna/tfu/i/iouti — since I was resuscitated / ac/iiuk- 

 atoti^d, devetitateti-liatfeiitato'e/iinien — to-day is the third 

 day after Sunday. Tcitdi akentaHati t'atvioiit, achnik 

 aton^fi onsahatnnnhunt — he passed two days lying thus, and 

 on the third he revived. One may also say, uclmik a^entavate 

 ^'tnaio oHimha tonliont — it is nine months since that. — 

 J'lntron aula u'<ituto)i. 



4(1. — Most substantives relative are rendered by corres- 

 ponding word** of the infinitive uiuod, r. ^'•. Love — ataten- 



uunhwttdi ; honor afaietfiicndaeu ; buj)lism — -^italtnde- 



kvaicflc ; confuiualion — ntatcmli/itviaitditc j coul'ceaiou— 



