188. _I gather fruit_, isírtăyagh (131.) árăten ehishkan.

_I pound_, edāhagh.

_I pound rice_, tifúkkogh táfăkat.

_I winnow_, kintihēgh _or_ tesabirtit rĕgh-at.

[Note: _Arăten_ (_arata_, a crocodile), read _arăten-n-ehíshkan_; or

even _arăden_? In Kab. _irden_, (_fruges_), wheat.

_Ehishk_, a tree, is in De Slane’s Temght _ishek_. I think it is the

Kab. _ishīḳ_, a branch; _branch_ for _bush_.

_Idah_, he pounds? Arab. _dakk_.

_Inkinteh, isabir_, he winnowed?]

189. _I tie up the bundles of Guinea-corn_, akitteléagh

ashíkkerashín-n-enĕli [_the_ fields _of corn?_].

_I knead it_, nek osáksăk-at. (145.)

_It is not well kneaded_, war tíkkĕne isūs.

[Note: _Ikitteleh_, “he sheaved?”]

190. _I hid_, efāragh (_abdidi, so Kab._); etwāragh (_condidi?_ see

102.).

_I cut wood_, ektāsagh ígĕtan. (173.)

_I split_, esraurawēgh [ezr-, 136.].

_I grind the knife on the stone_, emsādagh absar is tahōnt.

_I whet my knife_, sátăragh ábsarin.

_Whet for me_, esterāhi.

[Note: _Ígĕtan_, sticks, poles.

_Imsād_, he grinds: also, sharp. It is from Kab. _zed_, grind thou; and,

perhaps better written, _imzād_.

_Tahōnt, tehūnt_, rock (Temght).]

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