ROAS] HANDBOOK OP AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 725 



Special mention ougtit to be made, in speaking of stems of this 

 type, of the connectives. The simple connective and, indicated by 

 kan, has already been referred to in speaking of the unchangeable 

 stems. All other connectives seem to be formed from the auxiliary 

 verb a to be, by the addition of various verbal suffixes. A list of 

 these connectives, any of which may take the simple connective han 

 as an additional suffix, follows: 



ado' 111 so, thus atse t the whiles, at this time 



arne't but awe'hishn continually 



amd'ni then awe'te then 



Verbal stems which, although dissyllabic, yet appear to be unana- 

 lyzable, are not nearl}^ as numerous as the other types. Some of the 

 more common ones follow: 



he'no- to die -pwi'll- to roll 



hold'- to rotate -tola- to crush 



o'nhd- to conquer -tihil- to wind around 



ope'- (?) wile'- to run 



peda'- to steal, to answer vx/no- to die 



Verbal stems of the second type have alreadv been discussed in 

 § § 1 1-13, and need not therefore be taken up in detail here again. The 

 />», u\ and y series seem to be the clearest and least doubtful, and to 

 offer the fewest apparent exceptions. The h series is quite puzzling; 

 the /form (A/-), having no apparent relation to the others in the series 

 in meaning, falling as it does into the class of pure prefixes, indicating 

 parts of the body. The e and u forms {he- and hii-) are also very 

 irregular. Although the characteristic feature of these stems is, that 

 while they are most commonly used to modify another stem as a 

 prefix, they ma}^ 3^et themselves stand as independent stems on occa- 

 sion, there are one or more in each series which can not so stand 

 independently, it seems. The reasons for this exception are not yet 

 clear. 



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