[The Romany Rye by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookThe Romany Rye CHAPTER XIV 12/17
.' but I forgot, you don't understand Latin.
He says there are certain transitive verbs, whose infinitive is in outsaniel; the preterite in outsi; the imperative in oue; for example--parghatsoutsaniem, I irritate.
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." "You do, you do," said Belle; "and it will be better for both of us if you leave off doing so." "You would hardly believe, Belle," said I, "that the Armenian is in some respects closely connected with the Irish, but so it is; for example, that word parghatsoutsaniem is evidently derived from the same root as feargaim, which, in Irish, is as much as to say I vex." "You do, indeed," said Belle, sobbing. "But how do you account for it ?" "O man, man!" said Belle, bursting into tears, "for what purpose do you ask a poor ignorant girl such a question, unless it be to vex and irritate her? If you wish to display your learning, do so to the wise and instructed, and not to me, who can scarcely read or write.
Oh, leave off your nonsense; yet I know you will not do so, for it is the breath of your nostrils! I could have wished we should have parted in kindness, but you will not permit it.
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