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Ai: Gulai patiz, get into tlie ship. Macgillivray gives ^M?fl!« as 

 the plural of gul, but there are no examples in the Gospel. (See 

 Plurals, p. 136.) 



Du: Ngita tana aidu poilan, give ye them food. The common 

 form is ai, food. Macgillivray has (ii., p. 313) :" As examples of the 

 various forms of this word, I may give, ana pihur aidu = give me (some) 

 food ; ina aio ? = is this eatable ? ai = it is eatable." 



£, ho: This appears to be another spelling of the dative suffix ^a. 

 Waliz guiai, walizo, climb up into the ship, WaU% gulpa is also found. 



Boii : Koialou, with a loud voice. Koia for hoi ia. 



TJtu : This is, no doubt, connected with the verb utui, to lie down. 

 Ngawakaziutu lag, the place where the girl was lying. 



Asin : Perhaps connected with the verb-preposition asin, to be 

 with. Senali nginu melcatasin, in thy glory ; mehata, shining, 

 radiance. 



Gar : Palae getowanizo Zehetaiogar palamun tati, they left Zebedee 

 their father ; nanu aigar harpudan, all her living. 



Some of these terminations are also found with pronouns. For 

 examples, see Pronouns, § ii. 



(/) The possessive case of a pronoun is used with nouns in all cases. 

 In this the Saibai use differs from the Miriam. (See Miriam Grammar, 

 §m.^.) 



Example : Nongo hiilmigau nelpa, to his brother's name ; ngau 

 nelngu, through my name ; nongo purukanu, on his eye. 



§ IV. — Adjectives. 



1. A few adjectives are used in a simple form. Xbi, hai, big ; magi, 

 little ; hapu^ good ; ivati, bad ; pepe, thin. 



2. A distinctly adjectival form is given to a word by the affix nga. 

 Keinga, large ; mapunga, heavy ; towanga, easy ; piranga, pirung (m), 

 wet ; gogainga, weak. 



A few adjectives have the termination na instead of nga ; magina, 

 little ; suniein (m), cold. 



Adjectives of quality are formed by adding le (Muralug, re, ri) to 

 the name of a quality or thing, with or without the ending nga. 



Example : Mita, taste ; mitale, mitalenga, mitalnga, tasty ; hula^ 

 stone; kulale (m), stony; nisoy leaf; nisalnga, leafy; hulka, blood; 



