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in all languages, is az or ats in Chayma ; and 

 uochiri (in composition uac, uatscha) in Tama- 

 nack. It serves not only to form the passive, 

 but it is added also incontestably, as by aggluti- 

 nation, to the radical of attributive verbs, in a 

 number of tenses *. These agglutinations re- 

 mind us of the employment which the Sanscrit 

 makes of the auxiliary verbs as and bhu ( asti 

 and bhavati)\ ; the Latin of es andfu, or fus J, 

 the Biscayan, of izan, ucan, and eguin. There 

 are certain points, in which the idioms the most 

 dissimilar, concur. What is common to the 

 intellectual organization of man is reflected in 

 the general structure of language ; and every 

 idiom, however barbarous it appears, discovers 

 a regulating principle, which has presided at it's 

 formation. 



The plural, in Tamanack, is indicated in se- 

 ven different ways, according to the termination 

 of the substantive, or according as it designates 

 an animate or inanimate object §. In Chayma 



* The present in the Tamanack,, jarer-bac-ure, appears to 

 me nothing else than the verb substantive bac or uac (from 

 uocschiri, to be) added to the radical to carry, jare (in the 

 infinitive jareri), the result o f which is carrying to be I. 



f In the branch of the Germannic languages we find bhu 



under the forms bim, bist j as, in the forms vas, vast, vesum 



(Bopp. p. 138). 



X Hence fu-ero ; amav-issem • amav-eram ; possum {pot- 

 sum) . 



§ Tqmanacu, a Tamanack ; plur. Tamanakemi : Pongheme, 



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