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2. fe-, the prefix of distribution, means either that the act tpok place 



here and there in space, or continuously over space; or that one 

 person after another did the act. 



natelos she dragged it back 190.1 

 tehtcwen it grew 96.3 



tcittetcwai she buried in several places 192.12 

 tcetedeL they went out one by one 138.5 



3. d- occurs, for instance, with the adverbial prefix c7«!?- (§ 31.19), sig- 



nifying INTO FIRE. 

 dexodiLwaL he threw him into the fire 



4. 6- a verbal prefix, the meaning of which has not been ascertained. 



ddtcowilan she will leave ((^7r!> not; ^c- deictic; o- first modal; -lo- 

 second modal; Ian stem) 



5. -e- CUSTOMARY. This prefix is not used throughout all the tenses or 



modes, as are the preceding, but has the office in itself of mak- 

 ing a tense, as the sufiixes generally have. Before vowels it 

 generally appears as (?, and that is probabl}^ its true form. In 

 man}' cases it is connected with a consonant suggested by the 

 following sound or another word-element, when it appears as i. 

 Its use marks the act or condition as customary or habitual, or 

 at least as occurring more than once. 



tceexauw he is accustomed to catch with a net {tc- deictic; -e cus- 

 tomary; xaum stem) 



tcoexalt he is accustomed to buy (tc- deictic; o- first modal; -e cus- 

 tomary; -xait to buy, customary tense) 



6. In the same group stand all pronominal objects. 



tc{u)hwoiv{i)LxCd{i)Lte she will ask me for it {tc- deictic; hw- me; 

 0- first modal; -7v- second modal; -l- third modal; xuL to ask, 

 definite tense; -l continuously; -te future; the letters in paren- 

 theses represent glides) 



tanaixosdawei it cut him all to pieces {ta- adverbial prefix of 

 unknown significance; w«- iterative; -/deictic; -xd him; -s- sec- 

 ond modal; do to cut; -ei emphatic) 



7. n-. The use of this prefix is mostl}^ confined to adjectives (see § 76). 



§ 35. Second Modal Prefixes, Fifth. Position 



There are three simple sounds which by their presence indicate 

 whether the act is viewed as beginning, ending, or progressing. These 

 sounds are not found in all forms of the same verb, but only in those 

 tenses which refer to the act or state as one and definite. While it 



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