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Verb-stem 



s'umt'an I shall boil it (170.16) 



Aorist stem 



ts"!umuinfa.% I boiled it 



(170.17) 

 de^-l-ts-\ihihi'^n I closed door 



(90.5) 

 yegwegwa'^n I bit him (88.3) 

 loboba'^Ti, I pounded them 



(16.9) 

 limi'^m tree fell (108.11) 

 helel^e^ I sang (104.2, 5, 6) 



de^-i-s-ihin I shall close door 



(90.4) 

 je^gwa'n I shall bite him (88.2) 

 lo"ba'7i I shall pound them 



(16.6) 

 IVma'H' tree will fall (108.12) 

 hel^'e^ I shall sing (106.15) 



In the transitive verbs of this type the repeated consonant of the 

 aorist is found only when the object is of the third person; otherwise 

 it is dropped, with lengthening of the preceding vowel. Thus: 



tlomoin he killed him 16.15; hut tlomdxbi^n he killed you(cf . 178.12) 

 Before certain intransitivizing derivative suffixes, particularly -x- 

 (see §56) and -xa- (see §53), the same loss of the repeated consonant 

 of the aorist stem is to be noted. Thus: 



'plaha'iy he chopped it 90.11; but plehe'xa^ he chopped 55.6 

 wa^-l-tlemem he gathered them together; but da¥-t!emex they 

 are gathered together 43.9; 136.11 



With -X- the preceding vowel is lengthened, with -xa- it remains 

 short. The second consonant of the stems of verbs of Type 8 never 

 involves a radical glottal catch, hence the falling accent is never 

 found on either the first or second stem vowel. 



Type 9 . Verb-stem c + v" +'Ci ; aorist c! + v-]-y + v + Cj^. This tjpe is 

 not at all a common one. It differs from Type 7a in that the added 

 vowel (in every case a, as far as the material goes) is put iefore the 

 last consonant of the base, the y serving perhaps merely to connect 

 the stem -a- and added -a-. 



Of Type 9, examples are: 



Verb-stem 



da^ga'n I shall find it (110.15) 

 ssi^ga'n I shall shoot him 

 da-dMfe'' (-da*y-) I shall go to 



get something to eat (33.9) 

 da-dsiHdi'n ( = daiM-, see § 11) I 



shall go to get it to eat (33.9) 



Aorist stem 



t'.ayaga'^w I found it (27.12) 

 ts! ayaga'^71 1 shot him (45.13) 

 da-tlnyalfe^ I went to get 



something to eat^ (75.9) 

 da-t\sijaldi'^n ( = t!ayaiM-, see 



§ 11) I went to get it to eat 



(76.9) 



1 This verb might be considered as entirely parallel to gday- (aorist k.'ayai-) of Type 8. The deriva- 

 tive in -Id-, however, seems to prove it to be of Type 9; the -Id- forms, if belonging to Tj^pe 8, would 

 probably appear as *da-dafiya'ldin, *da-Ua,yaja'ldi^n. 



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