65. _Do we cross in a boat?_ nisger is tóraft?

_Or have we to go on foot?_ mēr essi sídaránnanagh?

_I cross a river_, isgeragh.

_I ford a river_, nek yer teawent.

_Take my horse through the river_, kuletāhi aïseni.

[Note: _Essi_ may seem to be the Latin num, an, as _is_ in Delaporte’s

Kabáíl.

_Isger_ is _izger_ in Kabáíl, perhaps more correct.

_Yer_ may seem to be for _yegh_, first person of a verb, so as to mean

“I keep the ford” (_teawent_ is a ford); but _eyyi_, in Barth, means

let, leave, being the Kabáíl _ejji_.

_Kulet_, plural, from root _kul?_ Compare _ikel_, he marched: or is _t_

radical?]

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