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Vdyu Vocabulary 



[No. 6. 



1. La'sungmi, 



2. La'lam. 



3. La'lam. 



Preterite. 



( La'chhongmi, excl. 

 ( La'chhingmi, inci. 



La'chhem. 



La'chhem. 



La'kikongmi, excl. 

 La'kikengnii, incl. 

 Lanem. 

 Lamem. 



13th.- 



- Conjugation (of Irregulars). 



N6, to be. 



Present Indicative Singular. 



The residue is quite regular (see 1st conjugation) as also 

 in the above verb, and indeed the dual and plural of all 

 verbs whatever are nearly immutable, as will have been 



' seen. 



Remark. — Both the above have an abrupt tone or obscure t' before the gerund, 

 participle and verbal noun signs, as lat'he ; not'he; lat'lat'ha, not'not'ha ; lat'vi, 

 not'vi ; la'ta, no'ta, also in the infinitive, lat'mung, not'mung. 



14th and 15th.— Conjugations (of Irregulars), being those of the verb la, to go, 

 as used in combination with other verbs. 



1. Ndgnom. 



2. Nonum. 



3. Nomi or 



Norn. 



I. — With transitives as top', to beat 

 Indicative present 



singular. 



1. Top iangmi. 



2. Top lam. 



3. Top lam. 



Preterite. 



1. Top lasungmi. 



2. Top lam. 



3. Toplachem. 



Topla. 

 RemarJc.- 



II. — "With neuters, as im, to sleep. 



Indicative present 

 singular. 



Dual and plural, 

 as in the un- 

 combined verb 

 lagnom, &c. 



1. Im lagnom. 



2. Im lam. 



3. Im lam. 



Preterite, 



1. Im la sungmi. 



2. Im lam. 



3. Im lam. 



"^ Dual and plural 

 are in the se- 

 parate verb. 

 \ 



Imperative. 



Imla. 



: In every conjunction of verbs the 1st loses the infinitive sign, and fc 

 used in the crude state, whence the peculiar transfer of passive expression to the 

 subordinate verb, as before illustrated. But to this, hato in the sense of let, is an 

 exception, thus, let me strike, is topmung hasung, and topmung hanum, I let 

 thee strike. 



The above fifteen conjugations with their accessories (see bracketed portions) 

 exhibit the whole scope of Vayu conjugation. But a reference to them will show 

 that it has been necessary, whilst striving to accommodate our forms to the genius 

 of this language, to interpolate into the transitives certain forms expressive of 

 both assent and object, and likewise to append to the passive certain other forms 

 which have been necessarily set apart from all the conjugations ; not to mention 

 the perpetual coincidence of active and passive forms. It may now be of use to 

 exhibit the whole matter of conjugation in another shape seemingly more accom- 

 modated to the genius of the language, and which, though exhibiting a deal of 

 repetition, will be found convenient for comparisons when we proceed to the 

 Kiranti language, a language still richer than the Vayu tongue, in pronominal 

 combinations with the verb and wherein consequently many of the mere iterations 

 of the following diagram will take distinct shapes ; whence we may infer that 

 decomposition has proceeded a good deal further in the Vayu language than in 

 the Kiranti tongue. 





