Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language - Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Buckingham Smith
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or quality, this verb is used. Earth, tevat; genitive, teuhte;
accusative, teuhta, whence comes the verb teúhtuun, I make me earth,--as do the sticks become, and bodies that rot. So dóhmetum, make man, explains the mystery of the incarnation, as, God the Son made himself man for us, Dios noquát tamóde, or tamo, betzeguai dóhmetui. So batuum, is made water, bat, water; nasórtaan, I throw away; nasórtuun, is thrown away, to become corruption; of which the perfect is tui, the future, tutze. 28. There are some _Compound Verbs_ which end in donon, signifying to go to do something, which appear to be formed from the future, omitting the last syllable tze, and substituting donon, as amúdonon, I go to hunt; amún being, I hunt; the future amútze; cumándonon, I go to gather wood, from cumánan, I gather wood, future cumantze; baudónon, I go to bring water, formed of bat, water; vun, the future of vtze, bring, and donon, which has the perfect doni, and future dontze. 29. The termination guan, is usually a sign of the _Active Verb_, as in mótzguan, I begin: máguan, or máhuan, I plough, and is added by the natives to some Spanish words they use, such are perdonároguan, I pardon; ayunároguan, I fast; velároguan, I watch. Some form the perfect in guari, and future in guatze; others the perfect in uhri, and future in úhtze, úitze, or in guatze. 30. To form _Compound Neuter Verbs_, the verb dáan, I go, is frequently used, as bahútunan, I melt (active); bahútudaan, I melt, or am melting, the neuter, barínan, I soften; baricdaan, I go on to soften; zicónan, I break; zicócdaan, I break (neuter); the perfect being dai, the future, détze. |
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