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The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
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termination, or by prefixed particles, or by both conjoined. One
authority makes six other tenses, but M. Cuoq prefers to include them
among the special forms of the verb, of which mention will presently be
made.

To give examples of these tenses, and the rules for their formation,
would require more space than can be devoted to the subject in the
present volume. The reader who desires to pursue the study is referred
to the works of M. Cuoq already mentioned.

The verb takes a passive form by inserting the syllable _at_
between the prefixed pronoun and the verb; and a reciprocal sense by
inserting _atat_. Thus, _kiatatas_, I put in;
_katiatatas_, I am put in; _katatiatatas_, I put myself in;
_konnis_, I make; _katonnis_, I am made; _katatonnis_, I
make myself. This syllable _at_ is probably derived from the word
_oyala_, body, which is used in the sense of "self," like the
corresponding word _hakty_ in the Delaware language.

The "transitions," or the pronominal forms which indicate the passage of
the action of a transitive verb from the agent to the object, play an
important part in the Iroquois language. In the Algonkin tongues these
transitions are indicated partly by prefixed pronouns, and partly by
terminal inflections. In the Iroquois the subjective and objective
pronouns are both prefixed, as in French. In that language "_il me
voit_" corresponds precisely with RAKAthatos, "he-me-sees." Here the
pronouns, _ra_, of the third person, and _ka_ of the first,
are evident enough. In other cases the two pronouns have been combined
in a form which shows no clear trace of either of the simple pronouns;
as in _helsenonwes_, thou lovest him, and _hianonwes_, he
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