Volume Ii Part 27 (1/2)

674 : Slowly : taregi (674, 804) : -.

675 : Constantly, always, only, still : mata* : -

(*Footnote. Expresses a continuance of the action: gul mata pongeipa = the canoe is still under sail.)

676 : Morning : muggi' batteingh : -.

677 : About noon : kei gariga (625, 2) : -.

678 : Afternoon : kut : -.

679 : Hereabouts : kareki : -.

680 : Here : ina* : -.

681 : There : chena* : -.

(*Footnote. Both are also p.r.o.nouns: perhaps, when translated as adverbs, the term equivalent to place is omitted, rendering ina = (in) this (place) and chena = (in) that (place.))

682 : Above, upwards : nakareipa : -.

683 : Below, downwards : malupa (29) : -.

684 : Below, (a very long way) : kara malupa : -.

685 : Inside : muye : -.

686 : Thus, in this manner : keda : keda.

687 : A long way off : kapi taig : -.

688 : Near, close to : logi : -.

689 : Again : laka : -.

690 : Completely, into pieces, etc. : palge : -.

691 : Well, much, etc. : purke : -.

692 : Where? : anaga : -.

693 : Why? : mipa : -.

694 : How, in what manner? : mida : -.

695 : Yes : wa, ua : ia.

696 : No : long-a, giure : untamo.

697 : Don't : wan-nur,* maige (804) : -.

(*Footnote. I suspect, from the termination, that this is the present tense of the imperative mood of some verb = to do, to perform, etc.)

698 : Stop! enough! : china : -.

699 : Exclamation of surprise : ka! ka! ka! : -.

700 : Exclamation to arrest attention : qualli! qualli! (= I say!) : -.

701 : Exclamation of pity : igur (= poor thing!) : -.

702 : And* : ia.

(*Footnote. Example: uleip' Aburdia, Salallaia, Wagelia, Mania = Aburde and Salalle and Wagel and Manu are approaching.)

10. VERBS.*

(*Footnote. After tabulating 100 Kowrarega verbs in all the different forms in which they had occurred to me, I yet failed in arriving at a knowledge of their mode of formation, owing to the deficiency of data on one hand, and the presence of some apparently defective and irregular verbs on the other. Still some of the results are worth recording.

Leaving out the consideration of the irregular verbs, I can speak with certainty of only two Moods, the Indicative and the Subjunctive, of the Present and the Past (probably really further divisible) Tenses of the former, and the Present of the latter. As an example I may give the verb to strike, of which the root is a.s.sumed to be matum = a stroke.

Indicative Present : nudu ngatu : matumeipa = I am striking him.

Indicative Perfect : nudu ngatu : matnmina = I struck him.

Indicative Future : nudu ngatu : matumeipakai = I shall strike him.