34. There are many _Compound Active Verbs_ ending in puguan or puuan,
which signify to pluck, as begu?t, skin, genitive; be?hte, accusative;
be?hta, whence beuhpuuan, tear off the skin is formed, and from mo,
hair of the human head comes m?puuan, pluck the hair, etc.; sequ?t,
flower, genitive, se?hte; accusative, se?hta gives se?hpuuan, to
pluck flowers; n?gua; root, genitive, na?hte; accusative, na?hta, when
na?hpuuan, eradicate, is formed, their perfect being in uhri, their
future in natze.
ZEM, ZEN.
35. Estimative Verbs it has already been said end in tzem, but there
are other verbs of that termination that signify certain passion,
failing, or quality, as, hisumtzem, I am hungry; ver?ctzem, I am
thirsty; vr?tzen, I am hot; vt?tzen, I am cold, which form their
perfects in tziui, the futures in tz?uhtze.
TAAN.
36. _The Particle_ taan compounded with a substantive, signifies to
do, as, sib?rtaan, to make girdles composed of sib?ra, band; z?ntaan,
to make arrows, zam?t signifying arrow; vacotaan, to make bow, from
v?cotzi, that instrument; but when it is component of the verb it
signifies, I say that I wish, thus from n?squen, I return, n?squitaan
is made, signifying, I say that I wish to return, and from p?nauan,
labor, is p?nauataan, I say that I wish to labor.
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