A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: The noun and pronounTrübner, 1876 |
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... the unfavourable effect isolation has on this , and all other parts of my work , and only wish my critics would bear it in mind sometimes . affording instances of the development of the -a suffix , . 6 FORMATION OF THE STEM .
... the unfavourable effect isolation has on this , and all other parts of my work , and only wish my critics would bear it in mind sometimes . affording instances of the development of the -a suffix , . 6 FORMATION OF THE STEM .
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John Beames. affording instances of the development of the -a suffix , whatever be thought of the cause of it . Those who hold that the termi- nation â = 0 is due to the Prakrit ( and at times also Sanskrit ) suffix must explain to us ...
John Beames. affording instances of the development of the -a suffix , whatever be thought of the cause of it . Those who hold that the termi- nation â = 0 is due to the Prakrit ( and at times also Sanskrit ) suffix must explain to us ...
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... Instances might be multiplied to a large extent , but the above will suffice to show that the rule holds good in a vast majority of instances , Sindhi having uniformly u , the other languages a , though Gujarati now and then retains u ...
... Instances might be multiplied to a large extent , but the above will suffice to show that the rule holds good in a vast majority of instances , Sindhi having uniformly u , the other languages a , though Gujarati now and then retains u ...
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... instances , vindicates its right to be considered the leading language of the group , by the fidelity with which it adheres to rule . The other languages are less faithful to the long vowel representing the oxytone , than they are to ...
... instances , vindicates its right to be considered the leading language of the group , by the fidelity with which it adheres to rule . The other languages are less faithful to the long vowel representing the oxytone , than they are to ...
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... instances the modern languages have not regarded these words as oxytones . Skr . " hand , " H. , and so in all , S. . Skr . नद् “ river , ” H. नद , M. id . , perhaps S. नडो “ tube , ” but also नडु . Skr . मेघ " cloud , ” H ...
... instances the modern languages have not regarded these words as oxytones . Skr . " hand , " H. , and so in all , S. . Skr . नद् “ river , ” H. नद , M. id . , perhaps S. नडो “ tube , ” but also नडु . Skr . मेघ " cloud , ” H ...
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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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