166. _I mend_, nekānagh (nek ganagh? 157.).

_I will go to the blacksmith_, irhēgh tíkaut-n-ēnhad (_volo

profectionem fabri?_)

_That he may mend what is spoiled in my gun_, ahíyeken away

íkhsheden dagh el barūdin.

[Note: _Ēnhad_, compare Arabic _hhadīd_ iron.

_Away ikhsheden_, τὸ φθαρὲν, article and participle. _Ikhshed_, it is

spoiled, _nemakhshad_, wasteful, in “Prodigal Son.”]

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