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Oskinahwai, A young man. Oakineegakwai, A young woman. 



Akiwaizi, An old man* Mindhno i d, An old woman. 



My tat':. . Nin Gah, ."My mother. 



\ \ ; .... . My daughter. 



Nimngwun, MynoniinJaw. Mb aim, My daughter-in-lair. 



Ni nahaim. My husband* Niinindimoimish. My wife. 



\ ■ . \ My grandmother. 



Ine£ cwa, A <•;.., G 



Aduik, A Neets i&ni, A doe. 



\ .... ooth, \ K ik - ihai, A bitch. 



The a I nonly denoted by prefixing 



the words Iabai, male j and ndzhui, female. 



<>. Reciprocal changes of the noun* The pronominal particles with 



which rerbt a.s well as substar.tiv. . aeraUy encumbered and the 



habit of using them in particular and restricted i but little 



occasion for the employment of cither the present or past infinitive 



A Chij ; I v. a da I r.ot say, I love, without 

 indicating, by an in ll cl on of the verb, the object beloved; and thus the 

 u.tly, I love him, or Ikt, &c Neither docs the infini- 

 : nerally the ultimate form of the verb. 



-, it will not the refo re be expected, 

 that thee Li Id uniformly result in the infinitive, for which there 



is so little nee ; but in such of ' the various moods 



as circum>:a\o i may require. Mosl commonly the third person singu- 

 lar of the iial and person singular of the imperative, 

 are I meets under which the verb appeals ; and h< 

 fan dm smist ken for, and reported as the present in- 

 finite . n which t!i 



Thus, h an Indi st, &c, without 



emp ctive forms of the verb to love: yet he can sav I 



laugh, 1 cry, &c i xmenaont in which the acton being confined to the 

 if, there is no ti . And in all similar in- 



stances the present infinitive, with the proper pronoun prefixed, is em. 



pl< »;. 



The. ral modes of trar.storming a substa-itive into a verb. 



The following examples will supply the rules, so far as known, which 

 govern these changes. 



