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Latin nouns in bilis, are formed by the inter- 

 position of the particle cCil with a participle, as 

 eluwiJ.u, donable, (or that which may be given), 

 aijuvALlu, amiablc;, and become negatives by the 

 farther interposition of the particle no. Ab- 

 stract nouns are very frequent, and generally 

 terminate in gen, as ai/uvalgcn, amiabl^^ness, bu- 

 tagcii, greatness. The compouiuls, which in Latin 

 end in ETUM/and Italian in eto, as CASTAGNtTO,* 

 terminate in the Chilian in ntu ; rumentu, a bed 

 of flowers ; curaniu, a place full of stones ; 

 millantu, a mine of gold. 



The simple structure only of the verb has hi- 

 therto been noticed. To point out the several 

 combinations it admits, Mouid require a laboured 

 treatise, admitting that each simple verb be- 

 comes, bv its union with various particles, the 

 fertile root of numerous other verbs. Of these 

 particles, there are some which, by being pre- 

 fixed, perform the office of the Latin preposi- 

 tions; others are interwoven with the verb itself, 

 and give foric It), or gracefully vary its signiti- 

 cation. The following examples of tjic latter, 

 taken from the numerous derivatives of the verb 

 dun, will suftice to explain this peculiar forma- 

 tion. Eliinlcn, to be giving ; eluguen, to give 

 more; eluduamen, to wish to give ; clvjecumen, 

 to come giving ; elullen, to ^\\c in earnest ; 



* A grove of chcsiiut trees. 



