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q. v., it refers to long objects, as canoes, poles, persons, hands, etc., these 

 being- either the objects touched or the objects through which other objects 

 are touched, pushed etc. 



kapata to touch ; skapata to touch oneself. 



kiupata, s;{apata to land, disembark. 



kshapata to lean against. 



Ikapata, ndakalpata to make surf. 



stapata to stand against something. 



tapata to hold something lnj means of an intervening substance. 



tchapt'ita to reach the shore, Mod. 



-patch, see -ptchi. 



-p6li', -p'le, or -p't, -bli, various forms of one and the same verbal suffix, 

 whose original a re appears after p in several inflectional forms: suko'lkipa- 

 luk in order to re-assemble. This suffix marks return, repetition, re-instatement 

 in all kinds of verbs, and can often be rendered by the English preposition 

 re-; its primarv meaning was that of replacing into the former condition or 

 location. When appended to verbs in -na, -peli becomes -mpeli by assimi- 

 lation : wempeli to recover one's health. 



1. Verbs in -peli denoting motion in zigzag lines or voltas, thus impress- 

 ing one's vision with tlie idea of return to an earlier position or place : 



gutilapkapgli to make turns ivhile descending. 



hulipeli to run into or through a tortuous road or valley, canon. 



hui^ipele to run, jump out of again. 



hopeli- in hopelitchna to dodge. 



yutalpgli to twist, as paper, cloth etc. 



2. Verbs in -peli denoting re-instatement often express the idea of taking 

 or going home, doing a thing again etc. : 



^mpgli to take or bring home ; from ena to bring. 

 gempgle to return home, to one's camp ; from gdna to go. 

 gutgapeli to climb down; from guka to climb up. 



