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I SHALL LEAVE IT OVER. The retention of the falling accent in the 

 aorist, although the presumable cause of it has been removed, is an 

 example of form-parallelism, and argues, at least in verbs of this 

 type, for the secondary origin of the aorist stem. The relation 

 between xo'tlan and xo'Hla^n is, then, the same as that which obtains 

 between yowo'^ he was and yowo'^da^ when he was 79.7. 



The organic character of the fortis consonant of verbs of this type 

 is still further evidenced by many derivative forms (iteratives, con- 

 tinuatives, -xa- forms used to imply lack of object) which are reg- 

 ularly derived from the verb-stem, not the aorist stem, even in their 

 aorist forms. Thus from sgd'H!- 45.10 (aorist sgd''^d- 72.10) cut are 

 derived the derivative aorists sgotlo'sgade^ i cut frequentatively 

 (62.1) , sgot!dl-ha^n i keep cutting it (108.8), sgilt.'u'xade^ i cut (with- 

 out object) (92.2). Parallel forms are derived from most other verbs 

 of this type, such asxi'^lc!-, WH:!-, sgV^p!- cut, sge'H!- lift up. A few 

 verbs of Type 6, however, form the aorists of these derivatives from 

 the aorist stems of the simple verbs. Such forms are the frequenta- 

 tives fhaga'fhag- 14.12 (from t'ha'^lc!- 136.20) and sege'sag- 172.10 

 (from se'^Tc!- nod to, open door 138.18). 



Type 7. Verb-stem c-\-v^-\-c^; aorist c! -\-v + c^-\-v{-\-i). The second 

 sub-group (7 J) of this sparsely represented type of verbs is apparently 

 •related to the first (7a) as are verbs of Type 4a to those of Type 2. 

 It is very improbable, however, that the characteristic -i- element 

 of the aorist is morphologically the same in both Type 4 and Type 7&, 

 as verbs of the latter type are clearly transitive, while in Type 4 the 

 -i- was found to be a clearly intransitivizing element. A further 

 difference between the two types lies in the marked length of the 

 repeated vowel in verbs of Type 76. This vocalic length is perhaps 

 responsible for the loss of the -i- in certain forms; e. g., d%-t!ugu% 

 HE WORE IT, but d%-t!ugU^n i wore it. (See § 65.) 



Of Type 7a only the following examples have been found: 



Verb-stem Aorist stem 



&a«-dep'(Ze* I shall arise 196.3 6a«-t!ebe'^'6^ I arose 186.14 



wa-dilnJiin I shall distribute wa-t\ili¥ni^n 1 have distributed 



them them (130.4) 



dwe'p'dwa'pak^a'* they will fly t!wep!e' t!wapx they flew v/ith 



without lighting out lighting 



The last example follows also Types 6 and 13a. 

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