CA, SARI, SCOR, SGUARI.

13, 14. It is usual for the want of many positive affirmatives in the

language to express by the positive of the opposite signification,

adding the negation ca, as, nucuatéri, perishable; canucuatéri,

everlasting; cúne, married, f.; cacúne, not married; húbi, married,

m.; cahúbi, not married, etc. Those ending in sári, and scor, mark a

bad, or vicious quality, as, dedensári, tobacco-smoker, from déinan, I

suck; and hibesári, gluttonous, from hibáan, I eat; nehrisári, talker,

from néhren, I talk; capasári, old rags, from capát; baníscor, weeper,

from báanan; cotzíscor, sleeper, from cotzom; dióscor, vagabond, from

dion, I walk, or vacosári, which has the same signification, from

vácon. The termination, sguari, is used in this sense: dotzi, old man;

dotzísguari, very old man; hóit, female of middle age; hoísguari, very

old woman.

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