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BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY 



INFERENTIAL 



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I -fc'4-£=fc/ See § 12. 

 PRESENT IMPERATIVE 



1 The -i- ot -iba^ evidently corresponds to the -i- in the first person plural aorist -ik', future -igam, but 

 appears, so far as known, only in the reciprocal, and, of course, in such cases as require connective -i- 

 instead of -a- (see below, § 64) : ha^w-t-kfemniba'^ let x;s sweat, with -i- because of instrumental 1-. 



FUTURE IMPERATIVE 



Singular: 



Second person 



yu'^k' 



baxma'^k' 



A few intransitives of this class add the consonantal pronominal 

 endings directly to the final semi-vowel (-y-) of the stem, instead of 

 employing the connective vowel -a-. Such are: 



elf ^ thou art 108.2, eifp' ye are 14.10 (contrast yeweya,Y thou 

 returnest [58.13], but yeweife^ I return [188.4] like elfe^ I am 

 198.2) 



nagalf thou sayest 56.5, nagaifp' ye say 170.4 (contrast fagayaY 

 thou criest, but fagatfe^ I cry [180.5] like nagalf e^ I say 180.1) 



To this somewhat irregular group of verbs belongs probably also lo'^- 

 PLAY, though, not ending in a semi-vowel in either the verb or aorist 

 stem, it shows no forms directly comparable to those just given; its 

 third person aorist, however, shows a rising accent before the catch: 

 loH^ 2 7Q J. (jjQ^ *ld'H^), a phenomenon that seems connected (see below, 

 § 65) with the lack of a connecting vowel before the personal endings. 

 A few stray verbs, otherwise following the normal scheme of 

 intransitive Class I endings, seem to lack a catch in the third person 

 aorist : 



1 This verb is defective, having only the three forms given above, the first person plural ethi^k' 180.13, 

 and the (cf. class II) indefinite eebia'^ 192.7, the latter two with loss of i and intrusive -6-. The third 

 person and the non-aorist forms are supplied by yo- be. 



2 =!;Z^ appears also in certain usitatives: UwiUV he used to nv^iSgeleVviE kept shouting. In which the 

 rising accent is proliably radical (see § 43, 4); these forms, furthermore, have lost a w, § 18 (cf. hiwiliut't^ 

 I RUN, sgeleut'e- 1 shout). 



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