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which do duty for the verb as well. Thus in Hova ma- forms both verbs and adjectives, but still it hardly ever happens that this ma- is employed with one and the same WB to form a verb and an adjective.From the WB tewina, " thick ", the language does, it is true, make the adjective matewina, but for the verb it employs another mode of formation: manatewina, " to make thick ".