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APPENDIX. 



Weedjeeagun, a helper. 

 Ojibwiii, a Chippewa. 



INDICATIVE. 



Weedokagai, he helps. 

 Ojibwamoo, he speaks 

 Chippewa. 



IMPERATITE. 



Weedjeei-wain, help thon. 

 Ojibwamoon, speak thou 

 Chippewa. 



Another class of nouns is converted into tlie first person, in- 

 dicative, of a pseudo -declarative verb, in the following manner: — 



The word am, included in parenthesis, is not in the original, 

 unless we may suppose the terminals oiv, mv, iiv, ooio, to be de- 

 rivatives from law. These changes are reciprocated by the verb, 

 which, as often as occasion requires, is made to put on a sub- 

 stantive form. The particle" t'jm, added to the indicative of the 

 verb, converts it into a substantive. Thus — 



