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all these idioms, for instance, resemble eacli 

 other in the suffix-construction, that is to say 

 in this, that all formative elements, all sym- 

 bols of relation are grafted upon the termina- 

 tion of the root ; they are never placed before 

 or in the middle of the radical element.* 



Let the roots be represented by R, one 

 or more suffixes by s, infixes by i, prefixes 

 by jj, and we shall be able to explain 

 our meaning in a very few words, as 

 follows : the verbal form of all the idioms 

 named is denoted by the morphological 

 formula Es ; for the Indo-Germanic family 

 it would be more correct to use the 

 formula E^s, for E"" denotes any root 



English terminology, I have taken the liberty of substituting 

 Tungusic, the language to which the vernacular of the Mand- 

 shu tribes belongs. — T. 



* Exceptions, as, for instance, the augment of the Indo- 

 Germanic verb, are merely apparent, but this we cannot enter 

 into. Compare i. a on the augment my " Comp. der vgl. 

 Gramm." &c. S. 292, s. 567.— A. 



