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atiata'lontamli — to escape from some one ; hafitiata'ton- 

 tamli — he has escaped from me. 



Nearly by the same rules are formed some neuter acqui- 

 sitive verbs from other neuter absolute verbs, as from 

 era/tens — that boils ; orahasennik — the pot boils for me ; 

 ori — that is cooked ; omenni — that is cooked for her j 

 ,a^aonk — that is old ; ja.aonsennik — that becomes old to her. 

 In like manner some neuter passives are formed, as, from 

 otendor'onavi — that is difficult ; otendor'on xnandik-^ihaX. is 

 impossible for him. Tlius otrihvochate — the affair is 

 spoiled ; otrihva^chatamli — the affair is spoiled for her ; 

 ota*hahaiie^indi — the road is stopped up for her. 



When several persons meet, relatives affixed to the same 

 verb, as, beseech liim for me, they repeat, or they say the 

 relative verb twice, as, speak to him and beseech him for me, 

 hesatatia. Ta^e he tsar on firms, ahajtcn — speak to each other 

 or go and exhort N. tell him to have pity on my brother, 

 in speaking of me or in naming me. 



Oi Frequentative, Multiplicative, and Augmentative 



Verbs. 



Augmentativcs arc made from the present, by only 

 adding a to skonnan or konnou, it ends in s or ch, as, kota- 

 liaskun — a great speaker, homatntiak — bespeaks; anenskon 

 — he does nothing but say that, from ikcn — he says ; horihv 

 andfraskon, from koriliHocli — great fisher. 



NoTK. — riitse augmentativcs arc always of the paradigma 

 *, hotendolomkon — great relater ; imperfect and pluperfect, 

 onnetihotiojjskon — great lewdness, from atrojpn — lo make 

 love ; present ojra, x being changed into g. 



TL<f multiplicative are those which are about a manifold 

 object; they arc formed from the future negative, by 

 changing e into o«, and follow the paradigma of a primi- 



