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have only one of the two forms, especially those ending in -i. Thus we 

 have: 



shlea to see, to be seen; shl^ash, contr. slile'sh, sle's the act of seeing, hav- 

 ing seen, being seen, vision, the ''looks of something"; d shieshlash the act of 

 seeing each object; shle-ish, contr. shle'sh one who sees or has seen, is seen; d 

 shleshla-ish each of those seeing or having seen, being seen. 



kedslia to sprout, kedshash the fact or act of sprouting, present or past ; 

 d. kt-ktcliash (of each plant) ; k^dshish the sprouting of it, the having sprouted, 

 d. kektchish (of each plant). 



These two endings, -ash and -ish, occur again in the nominal derivatives 

 from verbs or nomlna verbalia, and are discussed at length in the list of suf- 

 fixes. The verbs in -n nsually drop the -n in forming them: pan to eat, 

 pash, pa'sh for pa-asli and for pa-ish. 



The mode of rendering these verbals in English is very different, and 

 generally a dependent clause has to be formed. We thus obtain two par- 

 allel inflections of the two verbals indefinite: 



(1) shleash the act of seeing, having seen, being seen, having been seen. 

 shk'asham the seeing by others than the subject of the sentence, 

 shk'ashti for seeing, on account of seeing, being seen. 

 shleashe'mi, shleashii'm at the time of seeing, being seen. 

 shleashi ivhile, when seeing, being seen at a certain spot, 

 shlt^ashtka going to see, on the pioint of seeing, being seen. 



(2) shle-ish one who sees, saw, is seen, or has been seen. 



shle-isham others seeing, or being seen by others than the subject of the 



sentence, 

 shle-ishti for, on account of one seeing, being seen. 

 shle-ishe'mi at the time of seeing, being seen. 

 shie-ishi while, tvhen one is seeing, being seen at a certain spot, 

 shle'-ishtka one going to see, or on the point of being seen. 



The above paradigm, compared with that of a substantive, shows that 

 the objective and several of the locative cases are not represented, and that 

 the idea of time is prevailing. 



