A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: The noun and pronounTrübner, 1876 |
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... GENDER . § 29. Natural and grammatical gender § 30. Use of gender in the seven languages § 31. Typical terminations of the adjective § 32. Terminations of the masculine § 33. Terminations of the feminine § 34. Terminations of the neuter ...
... GENDER . § 29. Natural and grammatical gender § 30. Use of gender in the seven languages § 31. Typical terminations of the adjective § 32. Terminations of the masculine § 33. Terminations of the feminine § 34. Terminations of the neuter ...
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... genders , and make in the nominative case of Skr . , masc . -as , fem . -â , neut . -am . The s of the masc . nom . , however , is not permanent ; before a word beginning with a sonant letter , it , together with the a of the stem ...
... genders , and make in the nominative case of Skr . , masc . -as , fem . -â , neut . -am . The s of the masc . nom . , however , is not permanent ; before a word beginning with a sonant letter , it , together with the a of the stem ...
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... gender . In those languages which pay little or no attention to gender , as the Bengali and Oriya , the distinction was not needed , and we hear in O. such phrases as boṛo bhâi , “ eldest brother , " and borð bhauni , " eldest sister ...
... gender . In those languages which pay little or no attention to gender , as the Bengali and Oriya , the distinction was not needed , and we hear in O. such phrases as boṛo bhâi , “ eldest brother , " and borð bhauni , " eldest sister ...
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... gender - ridden language like this . More remarks about the adjectives will be found scattered amongst the various stems . 1 Deep ( colour ) , strong ( infusion of a drug ) , thick ( cloth ) , etc. § 5. The influence of the accent is ...
... gender - ridden language like this . More remarks about the adjectives will be found scattered amongst the various stems . 1 Deep ( colour ) , strong ( infusion of a drug ) , thick ( cloth ) , etc. § 5. The influence of the accent is ...
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... genders , and in the large majority of instances is barytone , carrying the accent on the root - syllable . A few cases exist in which the first syllable of the suffix bears the accent , and some in which it is oxytone , but the rule is ...
... genders , and in the large majority of instances is barytone , carrying the accent on the root - syllable . A few cases exist in which the first syllable of the suffix bears the accent , and some in which it is oxytone , but the rule is ...
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a-stem ablative added adjective affix anunâsika anuswâra Apabhranśa Arabic Aryan barytone becomes Bengali Bhojpuri Cambridge case-affixes case-endings case-particles Chand Chaucer Chinese cloth common compound consonant Crown 8vo dative declension deest Demy 8vo derived from Skr dialects DICTIONARY Edited English F. J. FURNIVALL feminine final vowel genitive Gipsy GRAMMAR Gujarati Hindi India inflected instances instrumental latter lengthened Linguistic Publications locative long â long vowel Ludgate Hill Marathi masc masculine meaning modern languages Nepali neuter nominative nouns nouns ending numerous oblique form Old-Hindi origin Oriya oxytone Panjabi particles Persian phonetic Prakrit probably pronoun Publications of Trübner rejected retain root Royal Asiatic Society Sanskrit semivowel seven languages sewed short vowel shortened Sindhi Sing singular stem substantive suffix syllable synthetical Tadbhavas Tatsamas termination Text three genders Translation Trumpp verb viii words को जो
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