“The ascent, my being occupied with, carrying on.”
This is what has been called by Friedrich Müller the “possessive conjugation,” the pronoun used being not in the nominative but in the possessive form.
The aorist presents a different mode of formation:—
| Nac-en, (i.e. Naci-en) | I ascended. |
| Nac-ech, | Thou ascended. |
| Naci, | He ascended. |
| Nac-on, | We ascended. |
| Nac-ex, | You ascended. |
| Nac-ob, | They ascended. |
Here en, ech, on, ex, are apparently the simple personal pronouns I, thou, we, you, and are used predicatively. The future is also conjugated in this form by the use of the verbal bin, binel, to go:
| Bin nacac en, | I am going to ascend. |
| Bin nacac ech, | Thou art going to ascend. |
| etc. |
The present of all the active verbs uses this predicative form, while their aorists and futures employ possessive forms. Thus:—
| Ten cambezic, | I teach him. |
| Tech cambezic, | Thou teaches him. |
| Lay cambezic, | He teaches him. |
Here, however, I must note a difference of opinion between eminent grammatical critics. Friedrich Müller considers all such forms as—
| Nac-en, | I ascended, |