136 W. THALBITZER. 
quently -liwa; of -Lona, -tona to -tiwa: e. g. EGr. -niartiwa = WGr. 
-niarLoya ‘I intending to’ (contemporative mode), EGr. takit-eyo ‘in 
seeing him’ instead of WGr. takiL'ono; рег ‘go away’ instead of 
ре-гте. A new form is the transitive 3! + 1% person -а‘га (rarely 
-ara) ‘he — те’, instead of, or rather beside the WGr. -aya, е. 5. in 
ornip:a'ra ‘he came to me’ beside (WGr.) ornip-a-ya. 
S 45. Classes of conjugation. — There are four classes of con- 
jugation to which is added as a fifth the negative conjugation by 
means of the suffix -p’illag). The latter is of peculiar origin and 
has its own history, but the four true classes divide the verbs 
according to their inner character or race, as will appear from the 
following types for whose further characterization I refer to my 
xskimo Sketch! where I have set up the four principal types found 
in the Westgreenland grammar. 
Typical classes of verb-conjugation. 
Stem modal absolutive HIT wera 
link ending 
Class I. kapi- + (wo + q = kapiwog ‘one stabs oneself’ 
» JI of + 0 + 9 = -9а`°9 ‘one does strongly —’ 
» TE. ki + po 1 9 = tikip:og “one arrives’ 
» IV. ak‘er- + po + q = ak:erpoq ‘one approaches’ 
YW apt т а == oping), “One Goes MOL == 
$ 46. — The various endings of the 12 modes are linked to the 
stems of these classes with phonetical characters not only special for 
‘ach mode but also varying to some extent for the different types 
of conjugation and making their classes easily distinguishable in the 
community of verbs. These outwardly varying marks of distinction 
we do not find through all the modes, but e. g. in the imperative 
and indicative modes and in those similar to the participle that have 
“limited suffixes’ (here marked with an asterisk). The rest of the 
modal marks are unvaried and alike through all the classes. 
The personal (“possessive”) endings of the verbs are linked 
directly and irresolvably to these modal characters — how, will be 
shown in the synopsis pag. 138 and in the following SS under the 
examples of each particular mode. 
1 Handbook of American Indian Languages I, p. 1031. 
