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28. ifie- transforms transitive verbs into intransitives, either without 



other change of meaning or with the significance to do on 

 BEHALF OF one's SELF. The objecf, when retained, is 

 expressed in the locative. 



tinenlete' erlcin Tci'mitik I take the load away for mj'self {t- 1\ 

 nlete to take away; -7'lzin present; Tci'mit- load) 



The use of me- in the transitive verb has been discussed in § 63, 



p. 736. 

 Examples are: 



enapela'e^ thou leavest some one (namely, me) 

 encqMa'tik 3^6 leave some one (namely, me) 



See, also, § 110, 67. 



29. fnen- transitive (see fe — n(i), § 114, 2, p. 821). 



30. Jajk- (Kamchadal) how many, some; used independently in 



the plural. 



la'h^7i Tccxo^n how many dogs? 



lali^n Mxol olxta' tockepnui he passed there a few days 



§ 114. Inclusive Affixes 



1. To cause to. 



{a) With intransitive verbs. 



Chukchee. Kor. Kam. 



r{i) — u (after terminal vowel) y{j) — v 



r{i) — eu (after terminal consonant) y{i) — aw^ av 



r{i) — et (after terminal ic diphthong y{i) — at 

 iu, eu, au) 



After verbal prefixes, the /■(/), y(/), changes to n{i).'^ 



ri-qamitva'-u-rTcin-en he was made to eat 9.8 (from qarnitva) 

 ri-tEl-e u-rkni you cause to be unwell (from tEl) 

 ri-neJlikDe' -n-ni'ti he was made to sit on it 8.11 

 ri-gg-eiif-nin he awakened him 7.5 

 ni-nto-w' -nen he made him go out 60.3 

 ri-inrdik-tu' -nin he made it appear 9.8 

 ga-n-Wiet-au' -len he made it jump ofi" 17.7 

 riyirran'nenat they caused them to be anointed 71.33 

 ineqali'lcenTci (we) induced her to marr}^ 26.5 

 gante'mgaulen has been created 42.1 

 (mintona! ikEl'en she does not make it go out 54.6 

 qanintona' tye^ cause him to go out! 54.7 



1 See also p. 735. 



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