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/kasą-/ `to know’      
/r sya-/ `to long for/to covet’
/rłga-/ `to love’
/kapg-/ `to hate’
/kasyąy-/ `to pity’
/yįmś-/ `to dream’
/wé-/

`to think’

 Processes :

A process is a change of state happening over a span of time. It is one conceived of as happening during which the object undergoes a metamorphosis. These verbs require an object as subject.

/grśwą-/ `to burn’
/grś-/ `to go out (as fire),to burn out’
/hįramga-/

`to assemble’

/ak-/ `to appear’
/piw-/

`to bloom’

It is necessary to distinguish, within these, terminal verbs. They are verbs which are specified as the end of an event or a process.

/sy-/ `to die’
/kh-/ `to reach’
/mi-/ `to be born’
/hįri-/ `to fall off’
/lā-/

`to fall down’

 Actions :

The verb is specified as an action, something which someone does or something that gets done by itself without the aid of any external agency or stimuli. These verbs require an agent or an executor as subject or do not need any subject at all. Different kinds of actions have to be set up to bring the in flexional behavior of the verbs into perspective.

(i) Ambient Actions :

These are actions conceived of as happening by themselves without assigning any agent within the environment they represent.

/kara-/ `to rain’
/bóra-/ `to thunder’
/at-/ `to rain hail-stones’
/arõ-/ `to snow’
/ablig-/

`to flash (as lightning)’

(ii) Motion Actions :

These are actions in the course of which there is a spatial displacement executed usually by the agent of itself or another entity in the environment.

/hanį-/ `to come’
/bó-/ `to go’
/chyg-/ `to walk’
/chyįb-/ `to run’
/paté-/


`to swim’


 

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