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KAMILARAI. 



COMPOUNDS. 



There are many compound verbs, and 

 they are frequently employed where in other 

 languages adverbs and prepositions would 

 be used. The verbs which most commonly 

 serve to modify others are the following: 



Mmilii/i or lianliili, to permit; as, Im, 

 strike, IninnniliUikn, to permit to strike; 

 burnti ulna l*nt /itni, I permit him to strike; 

 , to make, iimu/iii ,//ii/il;o, to permit to 

 make (or jierliaps, rather, to permit to be 

 made). When bn nhili is ])receded by mara 

 it has a passive signification; as, buinnru- 

 ii/i, to permit to be struck. 



/i or Hio/i, to do, to make, gives a 

 causal signification ; as, pita I, joy, pitul- 

 mali, to cause joy, to make joyful, pita I- 

 ma luin IKIII, I made him glad. Kola, secret, 

 kolamu/i, to conceal. 



Buntili has nearly the same meaning 

 with iinili; as, poat, growing, poai-bantili, 

 to cause to grow. 



Buyuli means to compel, oblige, cause; 

 as, tf'ti, dead, /< li-lm nuli, to cause to be 

 dead, to kill ; por-bayuli, to compel to drop. 



Burili signifies to cause by some means 

 or agency ; as, liir-lin / i,'i, to break by some 

 means ; ttti-burili, to kill by some means 

 (as poison). 



Kali signifies spontaneous action; as, 

 tiir-kn/i, to break of itself. (It is probably 

 the substantive verb ka, meaning to be in 

 any state, as is also the following): 



Kiikili is used to convert adjectives into 

 verbs ; as, pit.ul-kakili, to be glad ; titi- 

 kuki/i, to be dead. 



Buli, signifying to be in any act, is em- 

 ployed to form active verbs ; as, teti-buli, 

 to be dying. 



Maiijuli gives to the verb the meaning 

 of failure or incomplete operation ; as, na, 

 to see, na-maiyvli, to look without observ- 

 ing ; -guru, to hear, yarv-maiyvli, to hear 

 but not to attend. Bu-maiya ban bay, I 



W I R A D U R F. I. 



COMPOUNDS. 



Mambili, to permit; as, bumalmambira, 

 I permit to strike ; bumalmambilalinya, I 

 permit to strike again ; bumabumalalimam- 

 l,ilii<iri(iu-agiri, I shall permit to continue 

 striking again to-morrow ! 



Mali, to make or cause to be; as, marga, 

 shield, marga-mali, to cause to be a shield, 

 hence, to protect, save; baygan, broken, 

 baygamali, to break. 



Bimili has a causative force, (perhaps 

 from bit, strike,) as, balu-bunia, kill, (which 

 may be, " strike dead.") 



Gilinya is used to convert adjectives into 

 verbs ; as, gatay, glad, gatay-gilinya. 



