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 APP. NO. II.] NOTES TO TABLES OF TRANSITIONS. 295 transitions, two pronominal signs or characteristics ; 1. the initial n k w 1 (the last often omitted), which respectively show : k that one of the pronouns of the transition is of the second person ; n that the pronouns are, one of the first and the other of the third person ; w (or no initial prefixed to the verb proper,) that both pronouns are of the third person. 2. That inserted immediately after the verb proper, viz. a, an, awa, or divan, when the action terminates in the third person ; g, or k, when the action passes from the third to the first or second person ; /, when it passes from the first to the second ; and i when it passes from the second to the first person. Thence are deduced the forms of all the transitions of the Indicative, when both pronouns are in the singular number ; observing, that that from the third to the third person, (he — him,) still preserving the characteristic a, has various terminations, which, together with other varieties, may be seen in the table H. 7. Those forms, independent of the verb proper, are generally He — him, w' — a wall, agol, ak ; I — him, n' — a ; thou — him, k — a ; he — me, n — uk ; he — thee, k — uk ; I — thee, k — 1 ; thou — me, k — i. The plural terminations are less uniform. Referring to the table H. 7. for the varieties, we insert here the most usual ; distinguishing those, in which both pronouns are in the plural, from those in which one of the pronouns, either in the nominative or in the objective case, is in the singular. 710DI. obj: k' w' from 2d, or, 3d to 3d ' n f 1st " 3d 3d " 1st 3d " 2d k' 2d « 1st k 1st " 2d nominat' loth plural: sing. plural. a wak a newo a wak a neen g una g uwa i neen lo humo S e i himo le neen a wawak a wawuna g eneen g ehimo i hena lo hena 3d p. obj. > 3d p. nom. > 1st p. obj. 5 1st p. nom The plural terminations of the simple conjugations are : for the Indi- cative present, neen, for the fust ; himo, humo for the second ; wak, or newo for the third person. In the transitions, where one pronoun only is in the plural number, which terminate in the third person, or which include only the pronouns of the first and second person, (a &c.) the same terminations are used precisely for the same purpose, (neen stand- ing for ive, or us, &c), with one exception, viz. in the transition 'ye — him,' where eivo stands for ' yc.' In the transitions from the third to the first or second person, the g, or ge, designates, according to the second rule, the pronoun in the third person ; and una and uwa stand respec- tively for us and you : but if, in that transition the third person is in the plural number (they), ge alone is generally used without any plural ter- mination ; the initial k, or n, sufficiently distinguishing whether the Pronoun, in the singular objective case, is of the second or first person. In those transitions where both pronouns are in the plural number, wa added after the characteristic a (a ivawnk, airawuna,) shows that the third person is in the objective case (them) ; geneen and gehimo, which respectively indicate that the first or second person is in the objective