Grammar of the New Zealand Language

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W.C. Wilson, 1862 - Maori language - 168 pages
"Second edition of a Māori grammar for English speakers"--BIM.
 

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Page iii - G hard are formed by pressing the middle of the tongue to the roof of the mouth, near the throat, and separating them a little smartly to form the first, and more gently to form the last of these letters.
Page v - Articfe, a: as, a few men, a great many men: ... The reason of it is manifest from the effect, which the article has in these phrases: it means a small or great number collectively taken, and therefore gives the idea of a Whole, that is, of unity. Thus likewise a hundred, a thousand, is one whole number, an aggregate of many collectively taken; and therefore still retains the Article a, though joined as an Adjective to a plural Substantive; as, a hundred years.
Page ii - The seeond is more soft, and is formed by a gentle jar of the tongue against the palate ; so gentle indeed is the vibration, that most foreigners pronounee it like d or /, as in raro, ruru, rimu, pouaru, pari, muri, mariri, koiri, korikori, kouru, maru.
Page xix - Iwkorua, twenty, stands for twenty pair, ie forty, and so on. When they wish it 10 be understood singly they postfix inki-taki to the numeral adjeetive; eg, hokorua taki-taki, twenty.
Page xii - the verbal particles are words which have no meaning in themselves, but which, prefixed to a word, endue it with the qualities of a verb.
Page vi - It determines it (the thing spoken of) to be one single thing of the kind, leaving it (till uneertain whieh.
Page 13 - Seareely any part of Maori is more worthy of attention than the prepositions. In no language*, lhat wo are aequainted with, are their powers so extensive.
Page xxv - Kia ho atu ki a ia tana mea e inoi ai ia, to give her •whatsoever she loould ask, Mat.

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