Y is used to express different sounds, as in My, By, &c. &c. and in Daily, Fairly, &c.  Wherever it is met with in the middle, or end, (i.e. anywhere but at the beginning,) of a word, it is to be used as in the first example; but is never to be found as in the second, for that sound, or power, is always represented by the Italic letter e.  It has also a third power, as in the words Yes, Yell, &c., which is retained every where in the Vocabulary, at least in the beginning of words, or when it goes before another vowel, unless directed to be sounded separately by a mark over it, as thus, y a.

Unless in a few instances, these powers of the vowels are used throughout the Vocabulary; but, to make the pronunciation still less liable to change, or variation, a few marks are added to the words, as follows:—­

This mark " as oea, means that these letters are to be expressed singly.

The letters in Italic, as ee, or oo, make but one simple sound.

When a particular stress is laid on any part of a word in the pronunciation, an accent is placed over that letter where it begins, or rather between that and the preceding one.

It often happens that a word is compounded as it were of two, or in some cases the same word, or syllable, is repeated.  In these circumstances, a comma is placed under them at this division, where a rest, or small space, of time is left before you proceed to pronounce the other part, but it must not be imagined that this is a full stop.

     Examples in all these Cases.

     Roea, Great, long, distant.  E’r_ee_ma, Five.  Ry’po_ee_a, Fog, or
     mist.  E’h_oo_ra, To invert, or turn upside down.  Par_oo_, r_oo_,
     A partition, division, or screen.

A
VOCABULARY, &c.

A.
To abide, or remain                    Ete’ei. 
An Abode, or place of residence,       Noho`ra. 
Above, not below,                      N_eea_, s.  Tie’n_eea_. 
An Abscess,                              Fe’fe. 
Action, opposed to rest,               Ta’er_ee_.

Adhesive, of an adhesive or sticking
quality Oo’p_ee_re.

Adjoining, or contiguous to, E’p_ee_iho.

Admiration, an interjection of, A’w_ai_, s.  A’w_ai_
to P_ee_r_ee_ai.

An adulterer,                            T_ee_ho t_ee_ho, s.  Teeho
or one that vexes a married woman      ta-rar

To agitate, or shake a thing,
as water, &c. E_oo_a’w_ai_.

Aliment, or food of any kind,          Maea. 
Alive, that is not dead,               Waura. 
All, the whole, not a part,            A’ma_oo_. 
Alone, by one’s self,                  Ota’h_oi_.

Anger, or to be angry, Warrad_ee_,
s.  R_ee_d_ee_.