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Some other prefixes of this sort could be placed here almost as well, 

 e. g. m-, pointing to a curvilinear motion along the ground, and its compound 

 km-, cf. page 288. Like many other prefixes, the above often figure as 

 radical syllables or as parts of such; cf page 282 



There exist a number of adverbial terms in the language which at 

 times occur as independent words and at other times as prefixes to verbs or 

 nouns, in which case they lose their accentuation. The majority of them 

 are real adverbs, susceptible of reduplication within the compound word 

 formed by them and undergoing apocope or contraction like the English 

 agoing for "on going," or 'dojfior "do off." 



k4-a, ka- strongly, vehemently: kay4-a to cry aloud, for ka-a y4-a. Mod.; 

 kayega to begin to grow tall, for kA-a uy^ga. Cf also kahaha. 



k4-i not, no: kayai, d. kayaiyai not to cry ; kai^ema not to Jcnoiv, not to 

 recognize; keliak not possessed of, or absent. 



kui badly: kuyc'ga to become or fall sick; kuyc^wa to be disgusted at, to 

 dislike. 



ma-, m'ha-, prefix referring to the incomplete filling of a vase, recep- 

 tacle ; m'hawi'xa to fill partially ; cf iwi^a to put into, to fill into. 



mil-, mu- largely, greatly, much, the adverb of miini great: midbuka to 

 grow as a large round fruit upon the ground (also subst.); mu'l^a 

 to be dense, thick, from mu' ]yjm ; mulkual;(;a to emit smoke. From 

 the distributive form mutchutchuyapka to laugh, smile, it appears 

 that mu- is the above adverb, and the second part is probably 

 tchutchua to croak. 



na-i on one side, the inessive case of the numeral nadsh one: na-ital= 

 telshna to ride women-fashion, lit. "to look to one side only;" na-i= 

 shhikgish horned beetle, lit. "pincher on one side;" na-igshtdni half. 



takanil^a to fall right side up, from talaak straight; ne'l^a to lay down. 



tidshewa to rejoice at, to like, from tidsh tvell, hewa to think, consider; 

 cf ko-ishewa, kuytiwa. 



(c). Two verbs forming a compound verb. 



The modus of compounding a verb from two verbs is unusual in 

 Aryan, but not unfrequent in American languages, and is extensively em- 



