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Example : nidizo, to do ; nonyo nidaizinya, Ms doing (Lifu, la 

 hnei nyideti Jina huca, the by him deed) ; tanamun nyurupai%iny, 

 their doctrine ^ nyitamun Tcdrnyaizinya, what you have heard ; 

 tanamun imaizinya, thing they had seen ; mabaeyau tautumoizinya, 

 men's commandments (Lifu, la ite thina hna ahnithe hnei at, things 

 ordered by men) ; Anyadan Jcalmel manamoizinya, Grod's joining 

 together (Lifu, la hnei Akotesie hna icasiheun, the by God joined) ; 

 wara koi nyahad yimal poidamoizinya a hiitupataizinya, a large room 

 above, furnished and prepared. 



These suffixes appear to be used of persons, as well as of things. 

 Tana nulepa nyuroweidan yetolanyaizinya, they cast him out, shame- 

 fully handled {lit. a spoiled thing). 



A suffix lai seems to form a verbal noun in the words: toitupayailai, 

 prayer, from toitupayaipa ; nyinu Tcapuahasilai, your faith, from kapua- 

 kashi ; silamailai, an uproar, from silamai, to fight. Other examples 

 present some difficulty. Tana yetowanizo senali umaulai ddyam tUui, 

 they let in the bed wherein the sick man lay. 



The person performing an action is denoted by the noun mabaey, 

 plur. malaeyal, following the verbal root ; api-anyai mabaey, fish-trap- 

 setting man; mamoe danalpatai mabaey, shepherd, sheep-watching 

 man ; minaro polai mabaey, writer, mark-cutting man. Persons 

 belonging to a place are distinguished by the suffix laiy : Nazareta 

 laiy, man of iffazareta ; Saibai laiy, Badulaiy. Hence also the names 

 of the islanders of the Straits, though these are formed from the names 

 of parts of the body and not from names of places : Kaura-laiy, ear- 

 people ; Gumu-laiy, body-people ; Kulka-laiy, blood-people. Similarly 

 laiy is used with other nouns : kikiri laiy, sick person or people ; 

 maidelaiy, sorcerer ; iyalaiy, kinsman. 



la Mark, ix. 50, laiy is abbreviated to ly, and appears in the plural : 

 kapuza nyita alasilyal, have salt in yourselves, lit. good thing (if) ye fare) 

 salt people. Ln Mark, vii. 26, is ly, with the dative suffix, demonilyopa. 



The word iyal, suffixed, appears sometimes to form a personal 

 noun, but its use is not very clear. Nyita muamuayiyal, nyita 

 imaiyiyal, you (are persons) without understanding, you do not see. 

 Li these examples the first y represents the negative. The affirmative 

 has zi. Tana imaiziyal, they that saw it. 



Some adjectives are used with the word idaiy, plur. idaiyal, to form 

 presonal nouns. Nydlkai idaiyal, hypocrites ; tratra idaiy, a stammerer. 



