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§ 109. Before proceeding to describe the participial forms, I 

 wish to draw attention to the ease with which nouns become 

 verbs, outside of the cases mentioned above (see § 64). 



§ 1 10. Every noun in the comitative forms, by dropping e of 

 its suffix n-e, a base of an intransitive verb expressing the 

 ownership of something. For instance : 



ace-n''e with reindeer. 



acew to have reindeer. 



Met dcen'-je I have reindeer, or a reindeer. 



met uo'rpen--je I have children. 



Tu'del eci' en-i he has a father. 



§ 1 1 1. Every base of a noun may be turned into an intransi- 

 tive verb by adding to the particle no (be) as a suffix, which has 

 no meaning when it stands alone. For instance : 



Eci'e-no be a father. 



Met ecie-no-je I am a father, I have been a father. 



Met eci'e-ho-teye I shall be a father. 



Verbal Nouns. 



§ 112. The particle bon, being suffixed to various verbal 

 forms, composes verbal nouns, which are used sometimes as the 

 name of the subject (like our participles), or as a name of an 

 action ; but if the verb is transitive, the verbal noun may also 

 signify the object which receives the action expressed by the 

 verb. From the base oje (to drink), we may derive the follow- 

 ing verbal nouns : 



Present-Preterite. 

 d'jeyebo?i d'jemebon d'jemelebo7i d'jelbon 



Future. 

 0' jet ey ebon ojetmebon ojetmelebon ojetelbon. 



Bon combines also with the form let of the evidential mode. 



Examples. 



I. Tu' del i' bicile o'Jejtielebodek' He the milk who drank, or it is just 



the one that drank the milk. 



