This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...neuter-intransitives can become active-transitives on assuming a transitive termination; as, mocera, to sleep upon;, kotora, to lie upon; tikora, to sit ipon; tura, to stand upon. N.B. These words do not bear these senses in some dialects, but the principle here given exists in all the dialects with which we are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...neuter-intransitives can become active-transitives on assuming a transitive termination; as, mocera, to sleep upon;, kotora, to lie upon; tikora, to sit ipon; tura, to stand upon. N.B. These words do not bear these senses in some dialects, but the principle here given exists in all the dialects with which we are acquainted. It will be seen from the above that when a neuter-intransitive becomes an active-transitive it then answers to a neuter verb followed by a preposition, in English: the transitive termination in such a case exactly answering to a preposition. It may answer to almost any preposition, according as the sense of the verb or its object requires; as, in, on, upon, for, to, from, about, over, across, etc. Exxmples: --Au sa lakova na sala o qo, I go in this walk; au a butuka na gata, I trod on a snake; era sa vodoka na waqa, they went on board; eratou a lakova na tamata ko ya, they went for that man; sa salava na vale na wa, the running-weed runs up to, or upon, the house; o sa drotaki cei 1 from whom do you flee? sa drotaka nai sele na butako, the thief ran away with the knife; a cava dou sa vosataka, what are you speaking about; cicitaka nai vola o qo, run with this letter; qalova na wai o qo, swim across or over this water; kabata na kau ko ya, climb up that tree; kabataka namatau o qo, climb up with this axe. Remarks.--1. From the above examples it will appear that a transitive termination when affixed to a neuter-intransitive verb may answer to any preposition which its verb, or the object of the verb, requires. 2. Though neuter-intransitives can become active-transitives, as seen above, yet they cannot become active-intransitives; as tiko, moce, etc., cannot be active. See page 34. 3. Neuter-intransitives are simple words or roots; as, tiko, .
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