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pe guaz, I am gay with thee, properly, thee 

 with gay I be ; ucarepra, not as I, properly, / 

 as not ; quenpotupra quoguaz, I do not know 

 him, properly, him knowing not I am ; quenepra 

 quoguaz, I have not seen him, properly, him see- 

 ing not I am. In Tamanack, we say, acuri- 

 vane, beautiful, and acurivanepra, ugly, not 

 beautiful; outapra, there is no fish, properly^ 

 fish not ; uteripipra, I will not go, properly, / 

 to go will not, composed of iteri*, to go, ipiri, 

 to choose, and pra, not. Among the Caribbees, 

 whose language also bears some relation to the 

 Tamanack, though infinitely less than the Chay- 

 ma, the negation is expressed by an m placed 

 before the verb : amoyenlenganti, it is very cold ; 

 and mamoyenlenganti, it is not very cold. In an 

 analogous manner, the particle mna added to 

 the Tamanack verb, not at the end, but by 

 intercalation, gives it a negative sense, as taro, 

 to say, taromnar not to say. 



The verb substantive (to he), very irregular 



* In Chayma : utechire, I will go also, properly I ( u) to 

 go (the radical ite, or, because of the preceding vowel, te,) 

 also (chere, or ere, or ire). In utechire we find the Tama- 

 nack verb to go, iteri, of which ite is also the radical, and ri 

 the termination of the infinitive. In order to show that in 

 -Chayma chere or ere indicates the adverb also, I shall cite 

 from the fragment of a vocabulary in my possession u-chere, 

 I also ; nacaramayre,he said so also j guareazere, I carried 

 also ; charechere, to carry also. In the Tamanack, as in the 

 Chayma, chareri signifies to carry. 



