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In non-aoristic forms the phonetic conditions may, as usual, 

 necessitate an inorganic -a-: 

 ge wiWu run there! (29.10) 

 sgelafut'e^ I shall shout 

 hiWut'e^ I shall jump (160.17) 

 In these cases the evidence for the suffixal character of the -w- is 

 rather slim. In one verb, however, it has a clearly intransi- 

 tivizing influence: 

 tlemeyana,''^^ (second a inor- : tlamayana'^n I take her to her 

 ganic) he goes with woman husband (148.5) 



to see her married 148.6 

 tlemeya'nwia'^^ they (indef .) go 

 with her to see her married 

 178.1 

 (2) -w- (-aw- after a consonant in the aorist) is characteristic of all 

 tense-modes but, in some cases, the present imperative and 

 inferential (probably for phonetic reasons, see §§11 and 18) of 

 a number of transitive verbs, provided the object is of the 

 third person. Such verbs are : 



gayawa'^n I eat it 30.11 (gayau he ate it 54.5); future ga-iwa'n 

 128.18; noun of agent ga-iwa'^s eater (of it) 94.3; but impera- 

 tive gal eat it! 32.4; gaiV he ate it (inferential) 142.19 



al-sgalawi'^n I turn my head to look at him; future sgaHwi'n; 

 part. sgalixfuY {-a'- is inorganic) 144.17; but sgdWa^ I looked 

 at him turning my head (inferential) 



al-sgalaHiwi'^n (Type 8) I keep turning my head to look at him; 

 future sgalwalwi'n; but sgelelxi he keeps turning his head to 

 look at me 



ha-i-de-ye^giwida'^ you will drive (sickness) out of (body) 198.4,5; 

 imperative -ye^gn,'\\ 



wd^-giy^n'^n I brought it to him (176.17); future wagawi'n; but 

 wd'^ga'sbi^n I brought it to you (194.11) 



IdHsJ Villi he caused them to become (JdH- become) 43.1 



It is very likely that the absence of the -w- is conditioned, at least 

 in certain forms, rather by phonetic than by morphologic mo- 

 tives {gal from * galssf; sgdlk'a^ from ^sgdlwVa^). This is ren- 

 dered plausible by a form like ga-iwawa'lsbink' they will 

 ALWAYS EAT YOU 26.8 (repetition of -w- in frequentative as in 

 al-sgalwalwi'n) , in which the object is not of the third person. 

 The -w- seems to have been retained here because of the follow- 

 ing vowel. The form wd^ga'^n i brought it (110.17) as com- 



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