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vn' -kot-doi-dom breaking off a piece of something soft, like 



bread, by upward motion 

 vn'-not-kln to pull and bend down 

 vn'-pol-dau to pull brick out of wall 

 vn-td'-td-moto-pi to hug in arms 

 vn-to'Jc-dau to pull off a button 

 wl' -yal-kln to pull off a sliver downwards 

 im'-moto to gather together, as a crowd 



§ 14. Composition of Prefixes 



In a few instances, prefixes of the classes described in §§ 11 and 12 

 may be used together, although this is rare. An example of such use 

 is the form 



wb-wo' -han-o-dom. carrying on the shoulder a man extended at 

 length (i. e., head-first) 



§ 15. STEMS 



In §§ 3 and 4 the phonetic features of stems were pointed out, and 

 their tendency to occur in incomplete series with variable vowel was 

 illustrated. As in the case of the prefixes, the pairs or series appear 

 to have, for the most part, similar meanings, although a consid- 

 erable proportion differ radically in their significance, as do the 

 prefixes. The less noticeable feature of a variable consonant in 

 the stem was also pointed out. Further discussion of verbal stems 

 will be found in the analysis of the vocabulary (§ 41). 



SUFFIXES (§§ 16-26) 



Verbal suffixes are, as already stated, numerically far more impor- 

 tant than prefixes. Their range of meaning is also much greater, and, 

 unlike the prefixes, they may be compounded one with another to a 

 considerable extent. They do not, moreover, show any tendency 

 toward occurrence in pairs or series, as is characteristically the case 

 with many of the prefixes. 



§ 16. Groups of Suffixes 



The various suffixes may be divided, according to their meaning, 

 into the following groups : 



(1) Suffixes expressing direction of motion. 



(2) Modal suffixes. 



(3) Temporal suffixes. 



(4) Suffixes indicating relative success or completion of action. 



§§14-16 



