Let us consider the following sentence:

H-adeka, d-imigoda hu sikapo wolf o-koboroko jin: ki-o-doma ka-ye-see I-send you sheep wolf among as this!-because affirmed-koborokwa-li hu hori jin, ma-wakaia-li bajia hu wiru jin. To-moroa wisdom-freely ye serpent as, withheld-evil-freely also ye dove as its-but h-aitoa-li loko-no o-mun. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the ye-beware-freely man-plural at midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men.

The action-words h-adeka and d-imigoda are composed of a pronominal prefix (h-, d-), a quality-word (quality, state or condition) or object-word (ade, strong appearance, imigo, readiness, being ready), a consonant which indicates in what way the preceding compound acts (k making its appearance in a positive manner, d to be firmly established, to stand, to be stiff) and a vowel indicating the general character of what is happening.

The words we here call action-words, are all composed in this way; they all indicate an activity, and moreover a person can be indicated who causes this activity or controls it, which person in the finite forms is indicated by a pronominal prefix, or by an emphasizing pronoun or object-word, which fulfills the same function and occupies the same place as the pronominal prefix.

It is almost certain, that, for instance lo-oda, he died, and h-adunka, sleep ye, also belong to this category; a-odo, S.a-hudu-, means: permanently firmly established, or firmly established in space (which may refer to the body or to the soul); adunku-may have a similar meaning, or it may mean “to snore”.