OF VERBS.|117
which the following roots in (Telugu characters) admit, are those mentioned in the two first rules
for this conjugation (357 & 358.)
(
Telugu characters)...to reckon, to think.
(
Telugu characters)...to attend.
(
Telugu characters)..to share, to divide.
(
Telugu characters)...to lurk, to lie in wait secretly.
(
Telugu characters)...to surpass, to go beyond.
(
Telugu characters)...to harass, to torment.
(
Telugu characters)...to scrape, to scratch.
(
Telugu characters)to take, to receive.
(
Telugu characters)to imagine, to think.
(
Telugu characters)to rob.
(
Telugu characters)to perform a ceremony in which a string is consecrated to a particular deity, and then tied round the arm or wrist ; it is generally performed by females.
(
Telugu characters)...to weigh.
(
Telugu characters)...to rub.
(
Telugu characters)......to owe.
(
Telugu characters)...to move a piece, as in a game of chess, 6cc.
(
Telugu characters)...to love, to desire.
(
Telugu characters)...to claw.
(
Telugu characters)....to string (pearls, &c.}
(
Telugu characters)...to dig.
(
Telugu characters)...to churn'
(
Telugu characters)...to trust, to confide.
(
Telugu characters)...to send, to command, to rot.
(
Telugu characters)...to prefer, to approve.
(
Telugu characters)...to break in pieces.
(
Telugu characters)...to say
(
Telugu characters)...to increase.
All other roots in (Telugu characters) have the infinitive optionally either in (
Telugu characters) or in (
Telugu characters), and, when followed by (
Telugu characters) to form the present verbal participle, by (
Telugu characters) to form certain parts of the affirmative aorist, or by the terminations for the affirmative imperative, they may, at pleasure, convert (
Telugu characters) into (
Telugu characters); thus, (
Telugu characters), to bless, makes in the infinitive (
Telugu characters) or (
Telugu characters), in the present verbal participle (
Telugu characters)
or (Telugu characters) in the aorist (
Telugu characters), and in the imperative (
Telugu characters).
The verbs of the class last mentioned being more numerous than any others, in &, one of them has been selected as an example of this conjugation.
Root (Telugu characters)
Present verbal participle (
Telugu characters) (
Telugu characters)
common. common.
(Telugu characters) ... (
Telugu characters) blessing.
Past ............ ...do ......... ....... (Telugu characters) having blessed
Infinite ............................. blessing. to bless.