215. _The egg is not yet hatched_, tésădalt ur tisfákket.

_The egg is spoiled_, tésădalt tíggĕded.

_The eggs are spoiled_, tesádălen egadíddĕnad.

_The young bird picks (at the egg)_, akaukautet akirt.

_He will come forth_, ahad efóket.

_The cock is crowing_, ákes egetarōren.

[Note: _Tigĕded_, is birded? (214.), _i.e._ is quickened. It is fem.

sing., and the fem. pl. _egadíddĕnat_ (not _-nad_). Elsewhere,

_ikhshed_, it is spoiled, 167.

_Kaut_ (for hack, hew, cut) seems a widely-spread root. Arab. _ḳatʿa_,

and above, _ektas_.

_Ahad efóket_, may be future tense. See 174. and 220. Final _t_,

feminine mark?

_Egetarōren_ = _igetaghōren_, present partic. from _ighār_.]

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