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tchaliga to sit on the edge of; dii. wawaliga, pi. liuliga. 

 tchia to live, stay ; du. and pi. wa to live in a certain medium, 

 tchi'pka to live ivith others ; du. wawapka, pi. liupka. 

 tchutila to sit or be underneath ; du. wawatila, pi. liutila. 



4. Change of the radix and suffix occurs but in a few verbs, of which 

 has already been mentioned tknvixn (see its dual). 



k'leka to die (not in the other definitions of this verb); pi. kali'na, liili ; 



(Mod.) kalina, wenka. 

 sku'lpka to lie on something, or in bed; pi. lolua, lolumi. 

 tchawina to live, dtvell among; pi. shukla. 



VOCALIC AND CONSONANTIC INFLECTION. PARADIGMS. 



The evidence contained in the previous pages suffices to show that 

 there is no external distinction perceptible between the inflection of the 

 active, passive, or intransitive and other voices of the verb, their modes 

 and tenses Still we observe some few inflectional differences, all of which 

 are of a phonetic origin, and are caused by such figures as ellipsis, syncope, 

 or synizesis. These are always observed upon the point of contact of the 

 basis with the inflectional sufli.xes, and depend on the question whether the 

 verb ends in a consonant or in a vowel, and on the quality of that terminal 

 sound. This gives us two difterent kinds of inflection — 



1. Verbs ending in vowels: Vocalic inflection. 



2. Verbs ending in consonants: Consonantic hiflection. 



The vocalic inflection appends the bare inflection-endings to the verbal 

 ending -a, -u (or -o), -i (or -e). Thus the participle in -tko is formed for 

 herakanka, hemkankatko; for tamenu, tamenutko; for gulf, gulftko. Verbs 

 in -a, in which this -a is preceded by a vowel, present some alterations, and 

 synizesis often takes place. Some of the verbs in -na will lose the conso- 

 nant -n. We thus obtain three vocalic inflections: 



1. Inflection of the verbs in -a, or A-inflection. 



2. Inflection of the verbs in -u (or -o): U-inflection. 



3. Inflection of the verbs in -i (or -e): I-inflection. 



