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Vdyu Vocabulary. 



[No. 6. 



The verb hom, to taste. 



Infinitive Mood. 



Aff. Hommung, to taste or to have tasted.* Aoristic. 

 Neg. Mang hommung, not to taste or to have tasted. 



Gerunds. 1 



Horn he. V Present. Tasting < 



Hom nung, J [ 



Hom hom ha. 

 Horn sing he. 

 Hom kben. 



Honvi or Homvi. 

 Hooata or Hornpta. 

 Homtang or Homptang. 



Hom chyang. 



With main verb in present or future 

 with main verb in preterite. 



Past. Having tasted. 



Future or present. When tasting. 



Past. After tasting. After having tasted. 



Participles. 



Who tastes, did or will taste. Aoristic. 

 What is or has been tasted. Past and passive. 

 What will be tasted, what is usually tasted, what fit to 

 be tasted. Future passive. 



Verbal Nouns. 



~j Expresses the instrument as homchyang li, the tasting 

 > tongue. It is also used substantively hom chyang, 

 J the taster (organ, not man.) 



Hom lung, expresses 

 Hom sins;, expresses 

 The negative forms o 

 cle mang. 



the locality, external to self. 

 the time of tasting, 

 f all the above are made by prefixing 



Imperative Mood. 



the privitive parti 



Singular. 



Dual. 





Plural. 



Hompo. 



Homchhe. 

 Dual and plural of object. 





Homne. 



Hompochhe. 

 Hompome. 



Do thou taste those two. 

 Do thou taste them all. 



Negatives of the above. 







Tha hom. 



Tna homchhik. 

 Tha homne. 



Tha homchhe. 



Do not t;iste those two. 



Do not taste them all. 



Indicative Mood. 

 Present tense. 





Tha homne. 



]. Hom sungmi. 



f . Hom chhokmi, excl. /"Horn popmi, excl. 

 \~Mlom chhikmi, incl. \""" Hom pem, incl. 





Dual and plural of object. 







fl. Hom sungchhem. 

 \1. Hom sungmem. 

 2. -J- Hom mi. 



I taste them two. 

 I taste them all. 

 -J-Hom chhikmi. 



-f-Homnem. 





Dual and plural of object. 







f2. Hom chhikmi. 

 \2. Horn mem. 

 3.-l-Hom mi. 



Thou tast'st them two. 

 Thou tast'st them all. 

 -\~ Hom chhikmi. 



-}-Hc 



mnem. 



* Also used quite like ao adjective hommung ti, drinking or palatable water, 

 ater fit for tasting or being tasted. 



