176. _I go to fetch water_, eshárrăgagh áman.

_The water-carriers_, imshárrŏgen.

_Let us pitch the tent_, nektar. (?)

_I pitch the tent_, nek takanegh ehan. [_I fasten or fix?_ 157.]

_I drive in the pegs_, tetaităyagh.

[Note: _Isharrag_, see 63.

_Itaitay_, he drove in pegs; he pricked (as a scorpion).]

177. _I draw the ends of the leather covering of the tent_, tareréägh

tísĕdas.

_I draw the ropes of the tent_, tareréäs eréwiyen éhen (_he

tightens_ to it?).

_I spread the carpet in the tent_, nek fātagh der éhen: úwetagh

tisíftak.

[Note: _Oreä_ (root?), tighten; _oreäs_, strangle him; _oreäghas_, I

strangle him; _tarereägh_, (frequent) I tighten.

_Ifta_, he spread; corrupt Arabic, from _fatahh_. In _tisíftak_ the lost

ح reappears as final _k_. _Ifter_, mat, for _iftahh_, and _tesuftakht_,

carpet, in 226, 227.

_Úwetagh_, I arrange; see 168.]

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