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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 1 am. In Tamanack, we say, acuri- 

 vane, beautiful, and acurivanepra, ugly, not 

 beautiful ; outapra, there is no fish, proper ly^ 

 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 be), very irregular 



* In Chayma s 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 j nacaramayre y he said so also ; guareazere, I carried 

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

 Chayma, chareri signifies to carry. 



