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number and person only in the use of the aorist stem. Only very 

 few examples of subordinate -anaga'm have been found : 



aga'Tii ligigwanaga^m ]ust-th.ese which- we-brought-home 134.18; 



contrast Wgwanaga'm we shall bring them home 

 yewe xebe^yagwanaga' m if we should slay him (literally ,perhaps that- 



we-slay-him) 1 36.23 ; contrast xe^hagwanaga'm we shall slay him 



The use of the aorist stem in the subordinate, it will be observed, is 

 also the only characteristic that serves to keep distinct the third 

 personal subjective subordinates and the future forms of the passive: 

 al-xl'^xbina^ when he saw you, but al-xl'^xhina^ you will be seen 

 It may be noted that the third personal subjective aorist forms of 

 the transitive may be mechanically formed, like the passives of the 

 same tense, from the first person singular subject third person object 

 aorist by merely dropping the glottal catch of the latter form and 

 adding -a^. Thus: 



gel-hewe'Tiana^ when he thought 45.2; 142.10, 13, 16 (cf. gel- 

 Tiewe'Twfn I thought); but greZ-^et^e'Aau he thought 44.11 



The subordinate of the form with personal object -Y'joa is formed by 

 adding -tul^: 



malctk'wana^ when he told him 72.14 {malaVwa he told him 142.4) 

 The aorist passive subordinates cause no trouble whatever, the 

 characteristic -ma^ being in every case simply appended to the final 

 -n of the passive form: 



tlomoma'nma^ when he was killed 146.22 (from tloTnoma'n he was 



killed 148.3) 

 tlomoxanbanma^ when you (plural) were killed 



The complete subordinate inferential paradigm is rather motley in 

 appearance; -na^ is suffixed to the third personal subject in -¥: 



p!d¥na^ when he bathed 

 laba'¥na^ when he carried it 126.5 

 galk'na^ when he ate it 

 dumxiVna^ when he killed me 



The first person singular in -Va^{n) becomes -k'anda^; the first 

 person plural subordinate was not obtained, but doubtless has 

 -Yanaga'TYi as ending. The subordinate of the passive in -Vara is 

 regularly formed by the addition of -na^: 



galk'aTYina^ when it was eaten 

 domxamVamna^ when we were killed 

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