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Vtiyu Vocabulary . 



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Thus conjugate Pat', to fight, Met' to die, But', to flower, &c. 



Remark. — The verbs dung to be dry, dong to arrive, then to win, Yang, to lose 

 or decrease, Min, to be ripe, Hon, to be big, Bon, to fly, Lun, to run, and all 

 others ending in a nasal (n or ng) follow without change the sheer root paradigm, 

 or phi aforesaid. 



5th. — Conjugation of reflex or active intransitive (including also some neuters) 

 verbs in che, that is, which have this (the only) reflex sign added to their root in 

 the imperative which always strikes the key note to the several conjugations, always 

 having the formative affix whenever there is one. 



Im, to sleep. 



Infinitive Mood. 



Aff. Immung. To sleep or to have slept 1 . . 



Neg. Mang immung. Not to sleep, &c. J 



Remark. — I'-mung is as often used as immung. So that i may possibly be the 

 root, not im. 



Gerunds. 







Participles. 



Im he, 

 Im nung, 

 Im im ha, 

 Im sing he, 

 Im khen, 



1 

 1 

 ^-ut 



1 

 J 



supra. 



Imvi (mvi), 



Imta (imta), 



Imtang 



Verbal nouns 



Imchyang, 



Imlung, 



Imsing, 



1 

 / not useable, 



J 



Negatives, as in 



infinitive, that is, by prefixing mang. 







Imperative Mood. 





Singular. 





Dual. 



Plural. 



Aff. Imche. 

 Neg. Tha imche. 





Im nachhe. 

 Tha imnachhe. 



Indicative Present. 



Imchine. 

 Tha imchine. 



1. Imchungmi. 



2. Imchem. 



3. Imchem. 





flmnachhokmi. 

 \ Imnachhikmi. 



Imnacliikmi. 



Imnachikmi. 



Preterite. 



f Tmchikokmi. 

 "1 Imchikem. 



Imchinem. 



Imchimem. 



1. Imchungmi. 





C Imnachc 

 \ Imnachi 



>ngmi. 



ngmi. 



f Imchikongmi. 

 \ Imchikengmi. 



}»ut supra. 



2. Imchem. Imnachhem. f Imchinem. 



3. Imchem. Imnachhem. \ Imchimem. 



Thus are conjugated all reflex verbs whatever, having the che sign whether they 

 be primitive or derivative (and all transitives can be so commuted) as chikche, to 

 remember, mangche, to forget, lische, to learn, musche, to sit, ipche, to get up, 

 khokche, to walk, pipche, to suck, sipche, to wake, lipche, to vomit, popche, to 

 lick, kinche, to lie hid, lunche, to run, denche, to bathe, upche, to wash one's 

 self, tesche,* to begin, chusche, to end, khwenkhwen panche, to cough, khikche, 

 to sneeze, liche, to grow (plant only), gosclie, to be rich, vekche to contain, 

 dosche, to sustain or hold up, dunche, to dig for one's self, phasche, to be able, 



* Tesche gives, teshto set free, wonche, gives wonto, in comparison, be able. 



