■wimarau, put in (ini- wimulla, jnit down woinorai, yire 

 perative) (imperative) perative) 



yiiikunmlana, ijioiny wiulunni, tu barter wiyulaiya, to 

 each other. chamje. 



In Diyeri 'w 

 reciprocal of 'yiii 

 to give is probably ' wiyiuiatlii ' or ' wiyingamathi,' 'wi ' or ' wiyi ' 

 being the stem. But what is specially noticeable is the close 

 agreement of the imperative forms. The Kabi imperative is 

 generally the simplest and shortest form of the verb but it has 

 also a form in ' -morai ' as here represented, which appears to be 

 emphatic and the force of -morai as also of the terminations in the 

 other dialects '-marau,' '-mulla' is evidently do. In my contribution 

 on the Kabi in Mr. Curr's work this passage occurs, " Tlie ending 

 '-morai ' appears in some imperatives given in the table of conjuga- 



seems to me that ' -mpr ' was the stem of a verb now obsolete 

 which was almost equivalent to the verb do, and it now exists 

 merely as an intensifying ending."* I was not then aware that 



but is it not highly probable that parts of that verb have become 

 the regular terminal marks in different parts of the verb in many 

 dialects as for example '-ma,' '-mi,' 'mathi,' 'man,' indices of the 

 infinitive, and '-morai,' '-marau,' etc., of the imperative, and further 

 is it not also probable that these terminations are radically con- 

 nected with the Malay 'men' prehxed to words to transform them 

 into verbs 1 



The Kabi Language. 

 Authority, personal observation. A fuller but less systematic 

 notice of this dialect was contributed by me to Mr. Curr s 

 work " The Australian Race "f which would illustrate and 

 support my remarks here. For two or three points the Kev. 

 W. Ridley's account of Dippil is drawn upon. 

 Kabi is spoken chiefly in the basin of the Mary River, Queens- 

 land. The name is one of the negatives of the language. 1 have 

 taken this dialect as a specimen of the elaborate dialects of the 

 East Central division, not because it is the most highly developed 

 imd richly modified,' but rather because it belongs to that class 

 shewin,.^ the various distinctive features of its near relatives the 

 Kamih^oi and Wiradhuri, and especially because rather than enter 

 upon other men's labours I prefer where possible to tabulate a 

 dialpr.^ ...u;,.u u..„ ,.^<- K^^r. =^=t*.ma.t,icallv treated bv any one else. 



1 systematically treated by any ( 



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