tema'shight vocabulary— verbs. 
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84. / recall to mind {rny friends)^ 
nek esimmiktagbet imaraweni. 
/ am not thinking at all, war 
inehi abelu. {Thought does 
not find me ?) 
I remember, nek esimmesuya- 
kal(?) orkagh(?) 
85. / have forgotten, etuagh. 
Thou hast forgotten, tetuat. 
Forgetfulness, tatat. 
/ am accustomed to , nek 
esilmadarak isul-n . 
1 am accustomed to smoke much, 
nek esliuaragh almeddak tese- 
sen taba \_ccepi discam haustum 
tobacci^. 
I teach you, nek esalmadakay. 
86. 1 know, sanagb. 
/ do not know, ur essanagb. 
84. Iktha, cogitavit, seems to be the 
Kab. root. Hence imekthi, secum repu- 
tavit ; and here, isimmikti, the causative. 
Tmarau-eni, my friends? my sorrows? 
Elsewhere immerauen, mutual weeping : 
root, ru, sobbing, Kab. But imidaueni, my 
friends (Prod. Son) ; imidi, a friend. 
Esimmesuyakagh, suggests a root, snyak 
or uyak ; but esimmesuyaghak (I remember 
thee) a root suya. Both are strange to me. 
85. Itu, he forgot, Kab. 
limed (Arab, and Heb.), he learned ; 
isilmed, he taught ; here, he learned. 
Esilmadarak has a syllable too much ; 
read esihnadagh. Then, akisul or isul means 
custom ? 
Almeddak = Almeddagh, (ut) discam. 
Ishuar is for Kab. izwar, he began. So 
teshuar toran, incipit pariat parturit. 
Teses en taba ; en is the prep, "of? " 
87. Fgerah, understand thou ? So ogrii- 
Do you not know ? ke war tessi- 
nat ? 
/ am puzzled, nek amdeggeg. 
87. 1 understand, egerabagb. 
/ have 7iot understood what 
you said, war egerabagb meg- 
ger! t. 
/ understand a little Tarkiye, 
egerabagb andurren da Tema- 
sbigbt. 
/ cannot speak it, war dobegb 
assokel enis. 
88. I am learning Tarkiye, etataragh 
almud en Temasbigbt [peto 
doctrinam]. 
/ know the Kurdn by heart, ik- 
f asagb el Kuran ; etafagb. 
het, science. It seems to be a pure native 
root, as isen, he knew. 
Meggerit is explained by Barth as me 
gent = me gherit; or, rather, me teghrit, what 
thou hast called out. Meggered (jtie- 
ghered) is a harangue. See 29. 
Da, not certain Temashight, as Imdshaghe, 
for Kab. Temazight, Imdzagh. 
Assokel; see 25. 
88. Itar, petiit. In Kab. I know only 
the causative isuthar, petiit, which is com- 
mon. De Slane, in a Berber (Shilha ?) 
poem has idder and iter; viz. iwellik idder- 
nin, toi que Ton implore (jois ffe Ki(Tooixi- 
vois ?) ; and win itran, he who wishes 
Ik/as is corrupt Arabic. Hajiz, kiss^, 
Etafagh, I have caught or held fast, 
often has w, as though wataf were the root. 
It is Arab, c-fllap*-, whether native or im- 
ported. Common in Kab. See another 
etaf'm 208. 
