them could supply material for many a dissertation. In conformity with § 23 we shall here confine our enquiry to the main features of the subject.
Our first duty will simply be to recognize the existence of such prefixes, beginning our enquiry with the examination of a single language. Now here Sund. can be of very good service to us. It possesses a considerable number of monosyllabic roots which actually live in the language, nearly all being interjections, and it also possesses many word-bases derived from those roots. Karo, which we have often cited on other occasions, would be less useful to us here ; it also has a good many living monosyllabic roots, but in most cases no derivatives from them. We need only subtract the roots from the respective Sund. word-bases, and the formatives will appear. This is shown by the following list:
| dĕk, interjection of touching | adĕk, “ to touch ”: formative a. |
| bat, interjection of stretching | ĕmbat, “ facings ”: formative ĕm. |
| sĕd, interjection of pushing | isĕd, “ to push to ”: formative i. |
| rĕd, interjection of binding | urĕd, “ to bind fast ”: formative u. |
| bur, interjection of jerking away | kabur, “ to flee ”: formative ka. |
| gĕn, interjection of setting down | tagĕn, “ to put upon something ”: formative ta. |
| cok, interjection of picking | pacok, “ to pick ”: formative pa. |
| gĕs, interjection of breaking | rĕgas,* “ brittle ”: formative rĕ. |
| bar, interjection of spreading out | sĕbar, “ to sow ”: formative sĕ. |
Here then we have ascertained that the prefixes a-, ĕm- or ĕn- or ĕṅ-, i-, u-, ka-, ta-, pa-, rĕ-, and sĕ- are employed in Sund. for forming word-bases.
* With variation of the root.
