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Intransitive imperatives : 



TYiE'-tx-uit stand up! 211.21 (m- thou; -tx to stand; -uit suffix 



[§29.1]) 

 rriE'-x-a-x do! 15.25 (m- thou; -x- reflexive; -a- directive; -x to do) 

 TTiE'-LX-a go to the beach 175.16 (m- thou; -lx to the beach; -a 



future) 

 Transitive imperatives : 



e'-cg-am. take him! 43.8 (e- him; -eg- to take; -am completion) 



d'-latck hft her! 15.7 {a- her; -latck to hft) 



d'-t-TcL-a carry her here! 15.24 (a- her; -^- here [§ 26.2]; -A'-z, to 



carry; -a future) 

 SE^-psna jump! 16.3 (se- them two, namely, the legs; -psna to 



jump) 



2. -f- designates direction toward the speaker. 



a-lc-L-E'-t-TcL-am she brought it 124.24 {-t- toward speaker; -Jcl 



stem TO bring; -am completion) 

 a~LE'-t-ga it comes flying 139.1 {-t- toward speaker; -ga to fly) 

 a-LE'-n-Jca-t-ga it comes flying over me (-k- on) 



3. -f- potentiality, i. e., the power to perform an act moving away 



from the actor, without actual motion away. This prefix is 



identical with the preceding, but, according to its sense, it 



never occurs with the transitional. 

 tc-LE-t-x he can do it 61.8 {-t- potential; -x stem to do) 

 q-tE'-t-piahx-ax somebody can gather them 94.15 {-t- potential; 



-piaLx stem to gather ; -x usitative) 



4. -/.'/- negates direction toward an object, and thus eliminates one 



of the two objects of transitive verbs with two objects, and 

 transforms transitive verbs into intransitives. 

 a-q-i-L-gEm-o'-hte-x somebody pays him to it 261.23 {-gEin- with, 

 near; -o- directive; -Z:te thing; -x usitative) 



a-tc-a-gE7n-]ci'-Tcte he paid her 161.9 {-gEiri- with; -lei- elimi- 

 nates first object; -Me thing) 

 a-L-Tc-L-d-Tiet it looked at it 256.8 (-o- directive; -Icct stem to 

 look) 



ci-LE'-Tti-liet it looked 218.9 (-H- eliminates object; -kct stem 

 to look) 



The interpretation of these forms is not quite satisfactory. The 

 element -t occurs also as the stem to come, and the forms d'no, d' lo 

 I, it went, suggest that -o may be a stem of motion. If this is the 

 case, the first and third prefijxes of this class might rather form com- 

 pound stems with a great variety of other stems. The potential -t- 



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