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Italian in eto, as casta g ne to,* terminate in the 

 Chilian in ntu ; rumentu^ a bed of flowers; curantu^ 

 a place full of stones ; millantu^ a mine of gold. 



The simple structure only of the verb has hi- 

 therto been noticed. To point out the several com- 

 binations it admits would require a laboured treatise, 

 admitting that each simple verb becomes, by its 

 union with various particles, the fertile root of nu- 

 merous other verbs. Of these particles, there are 

 some which by being prefixed perform the office of 

 the Latin prepositions ; others are interwoven with 

 the verb itself, and give force to, or gracefully vary 

 its signification. The following examples of the 

 latter, taken from the numerous derivatives of the 

 verb elun^ will suffice to explain this peculiar for- 

 mation. Eluden^ to be giving ; eluguen, to give 

 more ; eluduamen^ to wish to give ; elujecumen, to 

 come giving ; elullen^ to give in earnest ; eluyaun^ 

 to go giving ; elumen^ to go to give ; elumon, to 

 have occasion to give ; elupan, to come to give ; 

 eliipen^ to doubt to give ; elupran^ to give to no pur- 

 pose ; elupun, to pass in giving ; elurquen^ to appear 

 to give ; elureniun^ to give unexpectedly ; elulun^ to 

 turii to give ; duvalen^ to be able to give; elume' 

 pran^ to go to give in vain, &c. 



Two, three or more of these particles, when com- 

 bined, form verbs of such a length as to comprehend 

 an entire sentence, as iduanclolavin^ I do not wish to 

 cat with him ; pemepravin^ I went to see him in 

 vain. ^ The first is composed of five distinct words, 



to eat ; duan^ wish ; clo^ with ; la, not ; vi, him 



* A grove of chesnut trees. 



