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PHILOLOGY. 



KAMILARAI. 



nearly struck him, or did not quite strike 

 him. 



Yeli (or yali) from u-iyeli, to speak, is 

 used with all terms implying verbal com- 

 munication ; as, yakoyeli, to lie, deceive ; 

 piyeli, to beg, entreat; turakaiyeli, to con- 

 vince. 



Eili, from uwali, to walk ; as, wiyaleili, 

 to talk and walk, or to converse while 

 walking ; tateili, to eat and walk. 



Several verbs are sometimes united in one 

 word ; as, tiir, broken ; liir-buyuli, to 

 break, tiir-buya-bunbili, to permit to break. 



WIRADUREI. 



Yali or yeli signifies to speak, baii/aK, 

 to command ; hence yanabaiyafi, to tell to 

 go; urumbaiyali, to tell to come in; baram- 

 baiyali, to tell to rise. 



Biligi is a suffix signifying to obey, or 

 do what the principal verb commands; it 

 is correlative with baiyali; as,yana-biligi, 

 to go when told ; yalbiligi, to speak when 

 told ; tatt/iligi, to eat when told. 



Eligi, signifies to do any thing for 

 another; it might, perhaps, have been 

 ranked as a modification of the verb ; as, 

 gandeligi, to carry for another (from 

 gana) ; minbeligi, to beg for another ; 

 meligi, to make or do for another ; bo- 

 luyeligi, to die for another. 



Numigi gives the signification of before, 

 prior to (in time) ; as, yannumigi (for 

 yalnumigi), to speak before or sooner ; 

 tannumigi for talnumigi), to eat before ; 

 balunumigi, to die before. 



Gurag is a prefix, having the sense of 

 completing any act ; as, guragmali, to 

 finish doing ; guragayeli, to finish speak- 

 ing ; guragatali, to eat all up, to be done 

 eating. 



Malay and yindi are independent words, 

 or particles used in forming the potential 

 and optative moods. They have the par- 

 ticles gu, gild, ya, yai, ba, wari, and the 

 tenses of the verb yiyyi, to be joined with 

 them to vary their meaning ; as, malay gu 

 ye, could speak ; yindu gild malay yinya, 

 thou oughtest to be ; bumai malay ya nal 

 yiyga, I should have been struck. Bumali 

 yindi bd-du, I wish to strike ; bumali yindi- 

 dyu yiyyi, I did wish to strike, or would 

 have struck ; bumali-dyu yindi yiyguain, 

 I have wished to strike, &c. 



To complete the comparative view of the two languages, we subjoin a collated list of 

 the most common words, with a collection of sentences rendered as literally as possible. 



