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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1902.
Indicating :
& thing:
Prefixes - Qualitative. Agent:
Ashantio-, Kafir um, Malagasy mpa-, Olo Ngadju pa-, Dakota w-.
Ashanta e. a person :
Mota in plurality :
Ashanti n-, Samoan fe-. name of an action: Kafir eku. past time: Malagasy napresent time : Malagasy ma-, man-, Olo Ngadja ma-. causative :
Motu hapassive:
Olo Ngadju in.
Suffixes – Radical.
Away : Khasi-noh. constantly : Khasi -roit, Nufor-epen. about: Motu -rohoroho. down: Mota -atao.
Sufixes - Functional.
Monning - In order to : Latin -are, Awabakal-ko. at:
Kafir -eni, -ni. in :
Hungarian -be. on:
Hungarian -ra. of, belonging to: Hungarian -i, Latin -i, Mortlock -n, Awabakal-umba. by means of : Awabakal-to. he or it: English-t, Latin, -it, -at, -t, Olo Ngadja -e, Motu 4, Mota .n. his, its : Malagasy -ny, -n, Olo Ngadju -n, Motu -na, Mortlock -n, Mota-na, -a. he would : Hungarian -ne. they did : Hungarian -ek, -vek, Latin -erant. their :
Motu -dia. transitive action: Mota - B.
Indicating :
Suffixes - Qualitative. Agent :
English -er, Awabakal -kan. a thing:
Hungarian -és, Latin -ud, -um. living thing: Mortlock -man. plurality :
English -s, Hungarian ak, Latin-es, Nufor-si, Dakota -pi. intention :
Khasi -1. past time:
English -ed, en, Latin -tum, Ashanti -i, -u, -8, Awabakal - Ira.
els, -le, -un. present time : Hungarian -Ö, Kafir -i, Motu-mu. passive :
Hungarian -tatek, Latin-tu-, Kafir -wa, Samoan -a, -na. object of an action: Hungarian -t, Latin -m. specification : 3
Nufor-iya. classification : Ashanti-fo. indefinite : Malagasy -na, -ka.
The meaning of this Nufor suffis is expressed by the English "
certain."
