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the first person plural of the aorist and future is evidently connected 

 with the -h- of e ^hi^F we are (see § 60, fourth footnote) ; the parallel- 

 ism is made complete by the fact that impersonal forms in -iau- 

 derived from Class II intransitives (except non-agentives) show a -p'- 

 before the sufRx, analogously to e^hia'^^: 



sene'sanp'ia'^^ there is whooping, se'nsanp'ia^H' there will be 

 whooping 



In the third person of the aorist, positionals in -i'^-, non-agentives, and 

 verbs in -p'- and other consonants (except n and probably I, m) lack 

 a positive ending, while reflexives and most of the miscellaneous verbs 

 (ending in a vowel or n, I, and m) show a final -t' . There is every 

 reason to believe that the absence of a -V in the former group of forms 

 is due to phonetic conditions that brought about its loss (see § 18). 

 As examples of verbs of this class will serve a non-agentive (aorist 

 ha-u-Jiana^s- stop), a reflexive (aorist %-lets!ek'wi- touch one's self), 

 a positional (aorist s'as'ini}- stand), and one of the miscellaneous 

 verbs {wl'^- go about) . 



AORIST. 



FUTURE 



POTENTIAL. 



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