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t!ana-; but phonetically the proportion would gain in symmetry by 

 reversing the positions of its first and third terms. Examples are: 



^'erb-stem 



w&gawi'n I shall bring it to him 



(45.6) 



wege'sink' he will bring it to me 



yanaTe" I shall go 14.3 

 haxa'i'e^ I shall burn (92.29) 

 daV-da-hsbWhin I shall answer 



him 

 laba' carry it! (70.5); 192.8 

 sagwa' paddle it! 112.3,9 

 wede'¥in¥ he will take it from 



him (16.10,11; 17.10,11) 

 lebe'n I shall pick it up and eat it 

 sebe'n I shall roast it (44.6) 

 Tie^^-iwVxinTc' he wUl go away 



from me 

 Jiawax-xiwi'fe^ I shall rot (194,8) 

 odo'r^ I shall hunt for it (1 16.7,1 1) 

 wooVfc' he will go to get it (162.8) 

 Tp'ujumda'n I shall smoke them 



out 

 yomo'n I shall catch up with him 



(46.7; 136.12,13) 



Aorlst stem 



wa*g^^y^'^7l I brought it to him 



(176.17) 

 we^ga'si he brought it to me 



(194.11) 

 j&nfe^ I went 14.7 

 hhxde' I burnt (98.1,4) 

 dak'-da-ha^H'^7i I answered him 



(122.4; 146.14; 180.18) 

 lap' he carried it 160.9 

 sa*gwa'^?i I paddled it (14.6) 

 Wet' gi he took it from him 16.13; 



(76.1) 

 le^'ba'^n I picked and ate it 94.5, 12 

 se^ba'^Ti I roasted it (118.10) 

 lie^--ms'i he went away from me 



(184.14,15) 

 Jiawax-xluf e^ I amrotting (100. 1) 

 o"da'^7i I hunted for it (13.9) 

 wo"Zf he went to get it 160.4 

 p'djamda^n I smoked them out 



(76.11) 

 yo"mIya'^7i I caught up with him 



(final -i'^- of aorist stem unex- 



plained) (140.14) 

 The two stem vowels of the verb-stem are always short in quantity, 

 the second regularly having the raised accent (imperatives yana", lebe", 

 odo^, woo^)} The long stem vowel of the aorist, when stressed, takes 

 the rising accent. To this latter rule there is one curious exception. 

 The verb odo- hunt for always has the falling accent on the o" of 

 the aorist {d'H" he hunted for it 13.9 ; 88.8, never *o"f ), but the non- 

 aorist forms follow in everything the analogy of other verbs of this 

 type. This anomaly is quite unexplained. Can it be that a leveling 

 out of two originally distinct paradigms has taken place {*o^d- , odo^- of 

 Type 5 and o'«(?- , *d'H!- of Type 6)? 



Type 6. Verb-stem v(^) + c/; aorist v^ + c. Most of the verbs that 

 follow this type have as second consonant in the aorist one capable of 



' Such forms as lebe'n, with falHng accent on the second vowel, are only apparently opposed to this 

 rule, as in these cases the falling accent regularly goes with the personal ending -n. Practically all vio- 

 lations of the accent rules found in the examples are of this merely apparent character and will be readily 

 explained away when the subject of personal endings is considered. 



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