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personal pronoun 2vem, prefixed to the first set of terms, may be 

 prefixed, with equal propriety, to the second set, and that its use 

 or disuse is perfectly optional with the speaker, as he may wish 

 to give additional energy or emphasis to the expression. To these 

 positions^ after reflection, discussion, and examination, we receive 

 an assent, and thus the uncertainty is terminated. 



We now wish to apply the principle thus elicited to verbs 

 causative, and to other compound terms — to the adjective verbs, 

 for instance — and to the other verbal compound expressions, in 

 which the objective and the nominative persons are incorporated 

 as a part of the verb, and are not prefixes to it. This may be 

 shown in the causative verb — 



TO MAKE HAPPY. 



Mainwaindumeid, He (who) makes me happy, 



Mainwaindumeik, He (who) makes thee happy. 



Mainwaindumeaud, He (who) makes him happy. 



Mainwaindumeinung, He (who) makes us happy, (in.) 



Mainwaindumeyaug, He (who) makes us happy, (ex.) 



Mainwaindumeinuaig, He (who) makes ye or i/ou happy. 



Mainwaindumeigowaud, He (who) makes them happy. 



And SO the forms might be continued throughout all the ob- 

 jective persons — 



Mainwaindum e yun, Thou (who) makest me happy, &c. 



The basis of these compounds is minno, "good," and aindum, 

 " the mind." Hence, minwaindum^ " he happy." The adjective, 

 in this connection, cannot be translated "good," but its effect 

 upon the noun is to denote that state of the mind which is at rest 

 with itself. The first change from this simple compound, is to 

 give the adjective a verbal form; and this is effected by a permu- 

 tation of the vowels of the first syllable — a rule of very extensive 

 application — and by which, in the present instance, the phrase 

 " he happy," is changed to " he makes happy," {mainwaindum) 

 The next step is to add the sufiix personal pronouns, id^ ih, aud, 

 kc, rendering the expressions, " he makes me happy," &c. But, 

 in adding these increments, the vowel e is thrown between the 

 adjective- verb and the pronoun suffixed, making the expression, 

 not maimvaindum-yun, but mainwaindum tyun. Generally, the 

 vowel e, in this situation, is a connective, or introduced merely 

 for the sake of euphony. And those who maintain that it is here 



