1856.] Grammar of the Thadou or new Kookie language. 185 



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What does he say ? Hi pan i ashoiyem ? 



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Can you spealc the Manipoori lan~ Nung Meitei pao nashoi thei 



guage ? em ? 



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How far is it to Cachar ? Hengchal ichun ghumlum ? 



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How many days journey ? Ni ijat lum hum ? 



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How many houses are there in Nung khda in ijat umum ? 

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 your village ? 



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What is your name ? Na min i hum ? 



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When he abused you, why (did you Ajou na turn pe din, ibola keima 



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not come) to me, and I (would henga nahuughiem ? chule 



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have punished him) myself? keiman aghimna bolinge. 



Verbs. 

 The expression of time in these can be traced to Past, Present, 

 and Future, and the tenses of the two former even are but little 

 understood, and are frequently used indiscriminately. 



The imperative mood is the simplest form of the verb, and is 

 obtained from the root (which is sometimes, but not always, used as 

 a noun) by subjoining " in" or " tan," as — 

 Hiingin or huugtan, come, 

 Punin or puntan, begin. 

 Shelin or sheltan, hide. 

 But when the root ends in a vowel, the first form of imperative 

 is obtained by elongating that vowel and subjoining n alone, as — 

 Moon or inutan, get. Lan or latan, take. 



Ven or vetan, see. Pen or petan, give. 



or by the introduction of a consonant between the final vowel of 

 the root, and the in, as 



Thouvin or thoutan, awake. Theiyin or theitan, be able. 

 Laijin or laitan, dig. Koiyin or koitan, place. 



The consonants j, v and y alone are in use for this purpose, but 

 there seems to be no rule as a guide in the adoption of them. 



