SIVEN, RINA.

4, 5. _Other verbal substantives_, signifying instruments, are made

from the future active: thus, the verb métecan, I chop, having métetze

in the future, receives siven in lieu of the final syllable, and makes

the substantive, métesiven, axe or tool with which to chop. Many of

these words likewise terminate in rina, as bícusirina, flute, from

bícudan, I whistle, and bíhirina, shovel, from bihán, I scrape.

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