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 ing'; yuntu-wallin, 'crowding; (3.) verbs ending in -warin, 'causing/ 'making'; as, nunku-warin, ' doing right '; wirrag- warin, ' doing wrong '; wurtu-warin, 'saturating with water'; (4.) verbs ending in -mindin; as, kildei-mindin, 'fetching.'

8. The word ellin means 'being,' 'state of being,' and some- times 'doing'; but ennin is the proper word for 'doing'; el appears to mean 'intention or tendency towards'; as, luk ap atye ellir, 'thus I it did,' ' I did so'; gate yan ellani, ' I (em- phatic) will do it'; gate yan ennani, ' I will do it '; en al yan, ' do with it,' i.e., 'doit'; kunitye ellir, 'enough he has been,' i.e., ' he is dead.' The following are the meanings which belong to ellin and ennin: — ellin, 'doing'; ellir, 'done'; ellani, ' about to do '; ellin, 'having'; ellin, 'being'; ellir, ' has been '; ennin, 'doing'; ennir, 'done'; ennani, ' will do.'

9. The stem of the word warin is used with the imperatives and interrogations; as. kug war, 'do hear'; nak war, 'do see'; gai war, 'do come'; ginte wara, 'get out of the way,' lit, 'do thou'; gint war,' do thou '(sc, it); mant war, 'do slowly '; murrumil war, 'make haste'; yelkul war, 'do more'; mint war, 'give me a bit,' lit., 'do to me thou'; kakin wara, 'put it here '; yag wari, ' where do you go.'

10. There are idiomatic expressions in which the words 'go' and 'come ' are omitted ; as, loldu el itye, or loru el ityc, 'up will he,' i.e., ' he will go '; mare el itye, ' down will he,' i.e., ' he will come'; loldan an, 'up it,' i.e., 'fetch it'; moru an, 'down him,' ■i.e., 'he has gone down'; mare itye, 'down he,' i.e., 'he has come '; moru el ap, ' down will I,' i.e., 'I will go down.'

Loru and loldu both mean 'up '; mare and moru, ' down.' 9. Adjectives.

(1) Simple adjectives are nuggari, 'good'; wirragi, bad'; and others ; some of these are declined like nouns. (2) Verbal adjectives; as, talin, ' heavy'; balpin, 'white'; kinemin, 'dirty'; kinpin, 'sweet'; prittyin, 'strong.' Some adjectives have both forms; as, balpe, balpin, 'white.'

The mode of declining adjectives has already been shown in connection with the nouns.

Adjectives have no degrees of comparison, but the diminutive particle -ol — used both with adjectives and nouns — is sometimes added to the positive; as, m'urralappi, 'small '; murralappi-ol, 'very small.'

The numeral adjectives are : — yammalai or yammalaitye, 'one'; niggegk, ' two ', neppaldar, 'three'; beyond that, all numbers else are gruwar, 'many.' Grunkar means 'first.' Some adjectives are formed from adverbs ; as, karlo-inyeri, 'of to-day,' 'new,' from karlo,' to-day '; kaldan-inyeri, ' old,' from kaldan, ' a. long time'; kogk-inyeri, 'alone/ ' by itself,' from kogk, ' away. '

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