singly or combined they vary and modify the 

 tenses. They also perfectly supply the place of 

 the modern auxiliary verbs. Thus the plu- 

 perfect, participating of the imperfect and per- 

 fectj is composed of the particles of both. The 

 future perfect is likewise formed from the cha- 

 racteristic particles of the perfect and the future, 

 and combines the signification of both. The 

 same may be observed with regard to the mixed, 

 which adopt the particles or augmentative syl- 

 lables of those tenses that approach nearest them 

 in signification, the first using those of the future 

 and imperfect, and the second those of the per- 

 fect, the future, and the imperfect. The same 

 system, though less obvious, occurs with little 

 variation in the Latin conjugations, the pluper- 

 fect amaveram being apparently composed of 

 the perfect amavi and the imperfect eram, and 

 amavero of the same perfect and the future ero. 



Having given a succinct view of the first in- 

 flexions of the verb, 1 shall proceed to notice 

 the second in which it is equally abundant. 

 Nouns ending in or,* are formed by changing 

 the final n of the infinitive into z^oe or ve, as 

 eluvoe or eluvt, the giver. Those implying action 

 terminate in uc, ah out, un, and um. The in- 

 finitive itself becomes a noun, as thecan, signifies 

 both to pass and a passage. Those called in the 



* The Spanish or Lutin terinination is bcre meant. 



