This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...mood, indefinite or indefinitive. infinitive, instrumental, intensitive. interrogative pronoun or interrogative. intransitive. introduction. line. long form. literally. locative. masculine. metri causa, or' for the sake of metre.' medical. metaphorioal. mythological. neuter, negative, nominative, numeral. oblique, obsolete. senBu obsccono. opposite, original. page. past participle, participle, particle, passive. person or personal. phonetic. phrase. plural. pleonastic. poetical. postposition. periphrastic. principal parts of a verb, i.e. the present partioiple, the past participle, the verbal noun in b, and the oblique verbal noun in ai. prec. precative. pre/. prefix. prep. preposition. pres. present. pret. preterite. prim. primary. pron. pronoun or pronominal. prop. properly. prov. proverb. q.v. quod vide, or ' which see.' qua/. quality or qualitative. quant. quantity or quantitative. red. redundant. red. /. redundant form. redupl. reduplication or reduplioated. refl. reflexive. rel. relative. resp. respective. t.v. sub voce. sc. scene (in a drama). scl. scilicet or to be understood. sec. secondary. sg. or sing. singular. sh. /. short form. A. Ar. Ba. Ki. N.B.--Abbreviations of adjectives may also be used as abbreviations of the corresponding adverbs. III.--In Quotations from the Bamayan. A COMPAEATIVE DICTIONARY OF THE BIHAEI LANGUAGE. a (1), the first letter of the Bihdri alphabet, represents three distinct vowels. First, it indicates 1a short vowel, which we, for the sake of convenience (see Introd.), transliterate with a, but which really has, as a rule, the sound of short aw (or short broad 6), as in the English ' hot, ' not, ' though not quite so deep as the corresponding Bangdli 8w. Secondly, it sometimes indicates sa long vowel, ...