tema'shight vocabulary— verbs. 
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182. 1 make ropes, nek attalemagh. 
Hold me the rope, sennikf alii. 
The Tawdrek are very clever in 
making good ropes of leather, 
Imoshagh adibabendareronan. 
Those ropes — from {the bark 
of) what tree do they make 
them? erewiyen wadagli in- 
nagh ehishkan wui tellenin 
(or, wui digmaden). 
I weave woollen blankets, zatagh 
tibbergentin. 
Which understand weaving bet- 
ter — the Fulldn or the Son- 
ghay? endekwajisan [endegh 
way isan] tezi tehosken, jer 
Afulan ped (?) E'hatan ? or, 
emalleten wuin E'hatan du 
wuin Fulan megeressen yu- 
fa tezeti ? 
All of them know good weaving 
esanantet iketenessen tezit 
tehosken. 
182. Yellim, he spun, Vent. ; Ar. lemm, 
glomeravit. Presently, for tellenin read 
tellemin, they twine ? 
Sennikf; root nikf? or ikfa? 
Aran, leather-rope ; pi. erOnan (vocab.). 
Erewi, a (hempen) rope ; so Kab. 
Izat, he weaves ; tezit, weaving. In Kab. 
zet, weave thou. 
Way-isan, who kne^v. 
Emalleten, the cloths ? the garments ? 
the tissues ? 
Wui-n-Ehatan, &c. 
Du, and ? 
Me-ger-assen, which betwixt them ; i. e. 
which of the two ? 
Yufa, surpasses, excels. 
Esanantet must be fem. pi. from isan, he 
knew. 
183. The women pluck the cotton, 
tideden itafash fasenit, or, 
itafash tikurukaren. 
lS4c, I spin thread, tarerayagh. 
The women spin thread, tideden 
reremat. 
/ weave cotton strips, ezatagh 
tabadoken. 
I sew, azamayagli. 
I cut out (a shirt), arawagh. 
I fold (a shirt), tedehagh. 
/ roll up, ekemingkemegh. 
185. 1 beat ( a shirt^. titebo^h. 
183. Itafashfas, he plucked (cotton). 
Tikurukaren, cottons ; sing. takerCkerit, 
from -enit, 3rd pi. fem. 
Ikarkar, he cleansed? See 164. 
1 84. Ireray, he spun. Reremat = Re- 
rainat, fem. 3rd pi., as elsewhere. 
Izamdy, he sews. In Earth's vocabulary, 
dzamay ; in Venture, tismi [tizmi ?], a 
needle. 
Iran, he cuts out. Ghad. ira, he shaved. 
Jdeh, he folded? Bat idd, he pounds, 
188. 
Ikemin(g)kem, he rolled up, must be fre- 
quentative, from ikemin ? 
185. RSbu, he beat ? 
Idesh, he hammered. 
Siggeniugish, from siggeni, indigo ; ugish, 
entrance ? or from sig, aspect ? 
Tikist, a rent ? (In Kab. a prick, sting.) 
Or, rather, it means a patch. 
I beat it ivell, until it becomes 
bright, tadeshagh, hartekkene 
siggeniiigish. 
1 dye, sadalagh. 
Dyeing, tesadalit. [Yet, tesa- 
dalt, an egg.'] 
I mend my shirt, tagagh tikist 
dar rishabani. 
