BOAS] HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 659 



sound, often of a group of consonants, or of a single syllable. Stems 

 of this character are relatively so numerous as to arouse suspicion 

 that all dissyllabic stems may be compounds. 



In many cases it is very difficult to determine the stem of the verb, 

 because it remains often doubtful whether an initial -x, -Ic, and -g 

 belong to the stem or to a prefix. The following list contains only 

 such stems the phonetic character and significance of which appear 

 reasonably certain. The stems are arranged according to their initial 

 sounds — ^first vowels, then labials, dentals, palatals, and finally 

 laterals. The beginning of the stem is marked by parallel lines: 

 suffixes are separated by single lines; tr., signifies transitive; intr., 

 intransitive. 



-Euux others, apart 

 -d'mJca onh', alone 

 -a'newa first 



-ext one (for animals and inanimate objects) 

 -e'xat one (person) 



-o\i to go. The forms of this verb are irregular. Some are 

 derived from a stem -i, while others seem to have the stem -o. 

 It may be, however, that the latter is only the directive pre- 

 fix -0-. The stem -i (which is absent in forms like of yd he 

 GOES, of Lo IT goes) reappears in 

 ayd'yam he arrives 

 ayo'ix he is in the habit of going 

 no'ya I go 

 no' yam I arrive 

 ne'gEmoya he goes along it 

 nigsld'ya I go for a purpose, i. e., I go hunting 

 ayoe'wulxt he goes up 

 -xeI\ dima other, different 

 -wa to pursue 



-d\wa to pursue tr. 62.12 

 -xd\,wa to run pi. intr. 276.9 

 -XE'l\\wa\]co to follow around 

 -u\wd'\\x-it to flee ( = to be pursued) 223.10 

 -u\\wd'\ko to demand 157.19 

 -d\ \wa^ to kill sing, obj . 

 -a\\wan heWy 186.6 ( = pregnant) 

 -dWivul^ to swallow 46.12 

 -d\ wintsx to melt 

 -U[\we'^ raw, unripe 93.26 

 -psna to jump 



-o\\pEna tr. with dual obj. to jump 192.13 



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