A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05: Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the; Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea; and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeKerr, Robert
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05: Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the; Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea; and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Kerr, Robert
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1st Present, _Eluan_, that is giving
2d Present, _Eluchean_, that is giving
Imperfect, _Elubuam_, that was giving
Perfect, _Eluuyeam_, that was given
Pluperfect, _Eluuyebuam_, that had given
1st Future, _Eluayam_, that shall be given
2d Future, _Eluuyeayam_, that should be given
1st Mixed, _Eluabuam_, that had to give
2d Mixed, _Eluuyeabuam_, that should have to give
Imperative. _Elupeam_, let us give, &c.
Instead of the impersonal verb, the third person singular of the passive
may be used impersonally, as in Latin. The verb may be made negative
through its whole conjugation, by means of inserting the particle _la_
in the indicative, _qui_ in the imperative which then takes the
termination of the subjunctive mood, and by means of _no_ in the
subjunctive and infinitive moods, as in the following examples.
Part II. Book II.
Indicative, _Elulan_, I do not give
_Elulaimi_, thou doest not give
Imperative, _Eluquili_, let me not give, &c.
Subjunctive, _Elunoli_, if I do not give, &c.
Infinitive, _Elunou_, not to give, &c.
NUMERALS OF THE CHILESE LANGUAGE.
_Cardinals._
1. _Quigne_ 11. _Mari-guigne_ 21. _Epumari quigne_
2. _Epu_ 12. _Mari-epu_. &c.
3. _Cula_
4. _Meli_
5. _Quechu_
6. _Cayu_
7. _Relghe_
8. _Para_
9. _Aylla_
10. _Masi_
20. _Epumari_
30. _Culamari_
40. _Melimari_, &c.
100. _Pataca_ 102. _Pataca epu_
200. _Epupataca_, &c.
1000. _Huaranca_
2000. _Epuhuaranca_ 2003. _Epuhuaranca cula_, &c.
_Ordinals._
_Unen, Unelelu, Quignelelu, Quignegetu, Quignegentu, Quigmentu, once
Epulelu, epugelu, epugentun, epuntu,_ twice, &c.[55]
[Footnote 55: The translator seems here to have misunderstood the author,
as these ordinal numbers ought surely to signify _first_ and _second_.--E.]
_Numeral Adverbs._
_Quignechi, guignemel, quignemita,_ once
_Epuchi, epumal, epumeta,_ twice, &c.
_Distributives._
_Calique, mallquigne,_ one by one
_Epuque, mollepu,_ two by two, &c.
_Numeral Verbs._
_Quignen_, to be one.
_Quignelian_, to join.
_Epun_, to be two; &c.
_Abstracts._
_Quignegen_, unity.
_Epugen_, duality.
_Culagen_, trinity, &c.
_Indefinites._
_Quignelque_, several.
_Epulgen_, about two.
_Culalque_, about three.
* * * * *
It has not been deemed necessary to repeat a great number of minute
observations given by Molina on this singular language, nor to report
the shades of difference in its dialects. But it has been thought proper
to give a short list of words from the Moluches, a tribe inhabiting
Patagonia, but speaking a nearly related dialect of the Chilese language
with that of the Araucanians.
Vocabulary.
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