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-yan^ -yun^ -yauw to eat 



-xan^ -xun^ -xauw to move in a basket or other vessel any- 

 liquid or smally divided substance, to catch with a net 



-tan^ -tun, turn to handle or move a long object 



-tan^ -tun, -turn to split 



-wen, -win, -we to kill 



-ten^ tin, turn to move or to carry in any way a person or 

 animal 



-tcwen, -tcwin, -tcwe to make, to arrange, to grow, to become 



-yai, -ya, -yauw to go, to come, to travel about (1st and 3d imp. 

 in -ya) 



-lai, -la, -luw to move or transfer a number of objects 



-lai, -la, -luw to travel by canoe, to manage a canoe 



-hwai, -hwa, -hwauw to walk, to go, to come (imp. has -hwa) 



The following have the definite tenses with -Z, the customary impo- 

 tential with -I, and the present indefinite and imperative with -l : ^ — 



-waL, -wul, -wuL to strike, to throw, to scatter 



-weL, -vnl, -wil relating to the passing of night 



-meL, -mil, -mih to strike, to throw, to drop 



-deL, -dil, -dih to go, to come, to travel (plural only) 



-deL, -dil, -dih to strike 



-taL, -tul, -tuL to step, to kick, to do anything with the foot 



-tseL, -tsil, -tsiL to pound, as with a hammer or maul 



§48. Boots witli Two Forms 



These roots, with a few exceptions, have the past definite, impoten- 

 tial, and customary with the first form, and the remaining tenses with 

 the other. 



First Type, -an, -un 



-yan, -yun to live, to pass through life 



-yan, -yun to spy upon, to watch, to observe with suspicion 



-wan, -wun to sleep 



-Ian, -lun to quit, to leave, to desist 



-Ian, -lun to be born 



-nan, -nun to drink 



-xan, -xun to be sweet or pleasant to the taste 



-tan, -tun to eat (3d person singular only) 



-tan, -tun relating to an}^ wax or waxlike substance 



-tsan, -tsun to find, to see 



-tcwan, -tcwun relating to the eating of a meal in company 



-TxObn, -hdn to put on edge, to lean up 



1 That the form with x is due to a final aspiration and that with L to glottal action seems reason- 

 able. The cause of this, if not due to vanished suffixes, must be looked for in accent. 



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