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/ make 'peace between them, 
etenagh tinaharen [/ speak 
goodness ? protection ?] . 
110. 1 go to law, esherragh. (^Ai-ab.) 
, nek amisten. 
/ overcome you at law, irne- 
ghak se sheriat. 
lam cast in a suit, etiwarnagh ; 
{the money is lost), eheri in- 
ekshe. 
111. I praise, egeriddagh. 
(thee?), nek elaka- 
dakay. 
I praise God, goder Mesi [go- 
degh ?]. 
/ promise to you safe conduct; 
I engage to you my faith, 
egislierak alkawel. 
/ will not betray {you), war 
ighadaragh. 
Tinaharen is explained by Barth as 
" pi-oteetion " and also " goodness." Corn- 
Line it with eMri, wealth, and perhaps 
with Arab, kheir, good, since khir is common 
in Kab. 
110. Irna (Kab.), superavit, irnu, su- 
perfuit ; two verbs which are hard to keep 
separate. {Irna in Venture is, il triomphe.) 
Here we have active and passive, irnegh, 
superari, etiwarnagh, snperatus sum. See 
the preliminary remarks. 
Inekshe, strictly, I think, "is eaten ;" 
a sort of Niphal passive, from ekshe. 
111. On egerid (egherid?'), see 29. 
Elakddakay, from ilakad? 
Egisherak, or egishegh-ak? I enter to 
thee. 
Alkawel is corrupt Arabic. Ghadar also 
is Arabic. 
Irkshed seems a mistake for ighshen (a 
/ break faith (with thee), nek 
irkshedak alkawel. 
He has broken faith {with me), 
enta irkshedahi alkawel : ar- 
zar da alkawel. 
112. 1 have made him confess by some 
means or other, nek esleakak 
estiwit tezar alaretahi gaway 
okar. 
I deny, odelagh. 
(/ refuse to you ?), nek odela- 
kay, odelagh el kher innek. 
/ refuse to you, nek endarakay. 
T punish you, nek akazabakay. 
He has refused (to) me, inda- 
rahi. 
\^ffe refused to me speech con- 
cerning it?2* indarahi meg- 
gered sirs. 
113. Pardon me! enshahi. 
I pardon you, enshaghak. 
Pardon me, 0 Lord I e Mesi, 
takfut felle. 
Ransom him, sokalas tefFedaut 
enis. 
participial form), " deceiving " (see 1 1 5.), 
from Arabic ghesh, decepit. 
Arzar : irza, he broke. 
112. Yodel, he denied ? 
Indar, he refused. So 218. 
Azab, seems to be Arab, adah, torment : 
but what is ak before it ? Does k replace 
lost ain ? 
113. Insha, he pardoned, recalls Arab. 
nesa, he forgot. 
Takfut, "thou hast forgiven," as from 
akfii. The ^ is a corruption of ain, from 
Arabic afu. 
Teffedaut, ransom, from Arab. feda. 
Sokalas, return (repay) for him. See 25. 
