The Verb now requires notice. In languages in the 

 same stage of development with the Australian the usual 

 analysis, as shewn by the late Mr. Garnett in his masterly 

 papers on the structure of the verb, is as follows : 1. The 

 root. 2. The possessive pronoun. 3. A particle of time 

 - often originally one oi place. 



A rough illustration of this is the statement that such a 

 word as dormur := sleep — my — then (or there) . To apply 

 this doctrine to the Kowrarega mth our present data, is 

 unsafe. Still, I am incUned (notwithstanding some dif- 

 ficulties) to identify the pa of the Present tense with the 

 bu in kai-bu = now, and the n of the preterite ^yiih. the n 

 of che-na = there. 



The double forms of the Past tense (one in n, and an- 

 other in m) are at present inexplicable. So are the double 

 forms of the Imperative, viz. the one in r, and the one 

 in e. It may, however, be remarked, that wherever the 

 Imperative ends in e, the Preterite has the form iu m ; 

 thus, pid-e = dig, pid-ema = dug. The only exception 

 is the anomalous form peneingodgi = dived. This prepares 

 the future grammarian for a division of the Kowrai-ega 

 Verbs into Conjugations. 



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