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 13. -Y-ilU-^o; m.., for instrmnentallty to he in some act.

^x. — Gratun welkorinun wal bara bon, gatun tetti wal bon wirrinun, 'and they shall scourge bim and put him to death.'

Anal. — Gratun, 'and'; welkorinun, 'will instrumentally wale' him. The wel is from the English, word wale, 'a mark in the flesh'; -ko is the usual affix of agency ; -ri-nun is the future tense of instrumental action ; wal is the certainty thereof ; bara, 'they'; bon, 'him'; tetti, 'death'; wirrinun, the future tense of instrumental violence; cf. wirrin wibbi-ko, the ' Avind moves/ sc, it.

1-i. -x-vdli-Tco ; m.,for instrumentality to act of itself.

Ex. — 1. Turullin tia topig-ko, ' the mosquito is stinging, piercing me'; tura bon warai-to, 'the spear speared, pierced, him'; turanun banug lancet-o, 'I will pierce thee with the lancet'; turanun, 'will pierce'; banug, conjoined dual case, 'I-thee'; lancet-o, the English word 'lancet' with o the affix of agency. 2. Niuwoa ba gurreug-kan gurrulliko, gurrabunbilla bon, 'he who hath ears to hear, let him hear.' Here the ear is the instrument that perceives of its own power.

Anal. — 2. Niuwoa, the emphatic personal pronoun, 'he' ; ba, a particle; gurreug, 'the ear'; -kan, a personal particle; gurreugkan therefore means 'a person who is eared, who has ears' ; gurrabunbilla, the imperative, 'permit to hear' ; bon, 'him'; gurrulliko, ' to hear'.

15. -\,-\lli-lco ; va..,for the thing to act, as a verlal noun. -

Ex. — Poai-buntiniin koiwon to, 'the rain will cause it to grow'.

Anal. — Poai, the bare form of the verb 'to grow'; biin, is the active permissive form of the verb ' to suffer or permit the act,' koiwon, 'rain'; -to, an affix, to show that the word to which it is affixed is the agent that purposes to act. In the sentence koiwon -to ba tin, 'it rains,' the ba is the aorist of the verb 'to be doing' some act ; tin, is the present tense of tilliko, and when used as a preposition means ' from, on account of it'; e.g., tetti-tin, 'on account of death'; gali-tin, ' on account of this'; but ' from, i.e., out of,' isbirug; as, Thydney-birug, 'from Sydney' ; London-birug, ' from London'.
 * to let actively'; -tiniin, the future-tense form of the verb;

1(3. -\,~elli-ko ; m., to indicate itself, as a verbal noun.

Ex.: — 1. Tantin bara piriwal buntelliko, 'for all who exalt themselves.' 2. Moron ta katea-kanun tetti kabirug, ' the resurrection from the dead.'

Anal.: — 1. Tantin, 'all'; bara, 'they'; piriwal, 'chief; bun, 'topermit' actively; telliko, 'for it to be' as indicated. Moron,

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