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weight. The rising pitch-accent, it should be noted, is always pre- 

 served as an integral element of the diphthong, even though a -'n 

 follow, so that the first personal singular subject third personal 

 object of such verbs {-v^n) stands in sharp contrast to the corre- 

 sponding form of the great mass of transitive verbs {-v'^n).'^ The 

 first person plural subject third person object and the third personal 

 passive are always parallel in form to the first person singular sub- 

 ject third person object in -^n (JcladaP'na'V and Jc.'adan like Idadd^n). 

 Examples of transitives with aorist stems ending in long diphthongs 

 not followed by connective -a- are: 



fgwaxa.^n I tattoo him : fgwaxolV you tattoo him 



dl-tliigu^n I wear it : di-t!ugui he wears it 96,16 



dd^-yelie^n I go where there is : dd^-yehelf you go where there 

 singing is singing (106.10) 



dd'^-yeJien (third person pas- 

 sive) 



dd'^-yeJie^na^F (first person 

 plural) 



]c!ad&^n I picked them up : Tclad&l he picked them up 



da-t!agsi^n I built afire : da-V.agal he built a fire 88.12; 



96.17 



swad&n (passive) they got : swadMsa^n they are gambling 

 beaten in gambling mth one another 



oyo^n I give it (= *oydn^n) 

 but also oyona'^n with con- 

 necting -a- 



Ideme'n I did it 74.13 : Idemei he did it 92.22; 144.6; 



176.1,4,5, 7,8,9, 14 



In aorist Idemei- make the -i-, actually or impliedly, appears only 

 when the object is of the third person (singular first, Ic.'eme^n; second, 

 Jclemelf; third, Icfemei; plural first, IcIeme^na'V; second, Iclemelfp'); 

 all other aoristic and all non-aoristic forms replace the -i- by a -n-: 



Ic.'emenxbi^n I make you 27.9 



Iclemenxa^n they make one another; future Tclemna'nV he will 

 make it 28.14 

 A few reduplicated transitives ending, in both aorist and verb-stems, 

 in a short diphthong (-aZ-, -am-, -an-, -aw-), lack a connective -a- 



1 It may be noted in passing that the Takelma reduction of an over-long diphthong {kin to em) oflers in 

 some respects a remarkable parallel to the reduction of an Indo-Gemianic long diphthong to a simple long 

 vowel before certain consonants, chiefly -m (e. g., Indo-Germanic *dicus = Skr. dyau's, Gk. Zeic, with pre- 

 served -u- because followed by -s, a consonant not capable of entering into diphthongal combination ; but 

 Indo-Germanic ace. *dicm= Ved . Skr. dyam , Horn. Gk. Z^i> wi thlost -?t-because followed by -m, a consonant 

 capable of entering into diphthongal combination). I do not wish to imply, however, that the accent of 

 forms like yehe^n is, as in diem, the compensating result of contraction, 



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