18$ Grammar of the 



Note. — Sasksi — shut your month, for satechiase ; it 

 passes from the second conjugation to the first. Most pas- 

 sives are made in the same manner, as from ^achondi — to 

 accommodate ; achondi — to accommodate one's self, to 

 dress. 



Reciprocals are formed from those passives by the ad- 

 dition of another aty as ataseti — to hide one's self, or, to 

 hide each other, from alaseti — to be hid. u4iatehiaton — to 

 attach itself to me, from atehiaton — to be attached to me. 

 Atahih>iaiensti — to instruct one another ; from atrihvaiensti 

 — to study ; atatonnhonti — to give life to one's self, or, to 

 give each other life, from atonnhonti — to receive life. But 

 in the fourth conjugation at is added ; but the following e 

 is changed into a, as ateinditenni — to have compassion upon 

 one's self, or, to have compassion for each other, from 

 enditenri — to have pity. These reciprocal verbs most fre- 

 quently have in relative verbs an infinitive signification, as 

 atiesen d" atalehiatondi — it is easy to write back to each 

 other ; d' atatrihvaienstandi — to instruct one another ; in 

 like manner to signify substantiv^es, as ^andero7i d'atatri- 

 hmienstandi — instruction is difficult ; tefienh'ni d'atataka- 

 rata'ti — I know not how to take care of the others. 



The deponent are those which may have the passive 

 mark of voice, as at; yet an active signification as atehien 

 — to commission, from the relative chienliaten sens— a phy- 

 sician ; from the relative di^atsente-j active, to physic ; 

 hatennha — he commissions, from the relative, ^aimhandi, 

 hatrios — he fights, from the relative, ario — to fight, to 

 kill. Aiandilenri may signify to have compassion upon 

 another, and also to lament to one's self on account of one's 

 own troubles, to weep over them, from the verb ^entenri — 

 to have pity. Moreover what was said of reciprocal or 



