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Rh an offender; to give wages to the man; to lend a weapon to an offender; to deliver, to pledge, etc., a thing to someone. But contrary to the German idiom, "to accuse something to a person", meaning "to accuse a person of something". 162. The adverbial is worked into the sentence by means of prepositions. Among the widely distributed prepositions are di, ri, "in, on, at", etc., and ka, "to, towards"; Tag. has sa, "in, at"; Timorese bi, "in"; etc., etc. — Illustrations. Lampong, from Ophuijsen's Collection of Mousedeer Stories: "If you come down to the water I shall catch you" = If y. descend to w., you I c. = asal niku turun di way, niku ku tĕkĕp. Běsěmah, from Half rich's Collection of Proverbs: "Where is there any ivory that has no flaw?" = In what i., not flawed = di manĕ gadiṅ diq běrětaq. Kangeanese, from the Story of Kandhulok: "On his way Kandhulok arrived at a ricefield" = O.-h.-w. the K. a. at r. = sa-jhalan-jhalan-na se Kandhulok těppaq ka saba. Timorese, from Jonker's text: "What is smelling in the room in there?" = saan nafo hi keen nanan. Togianese, from Adriani's small Collection of Texts: "I will not live in my village here any longer" = Not + more I will live h. in v. my = tamo ku poru maroro iriqi ri lipu ṅku. Nabaloi, from Scheerer's Collection of Dialogues: "We eat on the march" = Eat we during m. = maṅan tayo chi chalan.* Tag., from Tell: "You are my guest at Schwyz, I am yours at Lucerne" = You g. mine at S., I the yours at L. = kayo i panaohin ko sa Schwyz, ako aṅ iniyo sa Luserna.


 * Scheerer gives no description of his ch, but as he has based his spelling on the Spanish usage it seems likely that his ch is identical with the sound rendered in these Essays by c.