A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: The noun and pronounTrübner, 1876 |
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... vowel or syllable to the root , but also effect some change in the root itself , either by lengthen- ing the vowel , eliding a final consonant , or in some other way . In order to indicate the effect the suffix has on the root , the ...
... vowel or syllable to the root , but also effect some change in the root itself , either by lengthen- ing the vowel , eliding a final consonant , or in some other way . In order to indicate the effect the suffix has on the root , the ...
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... vowel representing the oxytone , than they are to the short vowel derived from the barytone stems . Marathi especially diverges in this respect , but the divergence is probably due , as will be seen hereafter , to its practice in ...
... vowel representing the oxytone , than they are to the short vowel derived from the barytone stems . Marathi especially diverges in this respect , but the divergence is probably due , as will be seen hereafter , to its practice in ...
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... stems of this small class , the masses did not at any time observe this distinction , but treated 1 Vergl . Accentuationssystem , § 115 . them as barytones , and the final vowel has therefore 10 FORMATION OF THE STEM .
... stems of this small class , the masses did not at any time observe this distinction , but treated 1 Vergl . Accentuationssystem , § 115 . them as barytones , and the final vowel has therefore 10 FORMATION OF THE STEM .
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... vowel to the root , might be classed as a nomen agentis , and expected to be an oxytone . There is no reason why gárbha , " womb , " should not be considered as a noun of the agent , meaning the container ( root “ to hold ” ) , or kárna ...
... vowel to the root , might be classed as a nomen agentis , and expected to be an oxytone . There is no reason why gárbha , " womb , " should not be considered as a noun of the agent , meaning the container ( root “ to hold ” ) , or kárna ...
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... vowel being shortened . The rule therefore hardly covers all the examples , and is perhaps not meant to do so , as Bopp merely includes adjectives with the meaning of the present participle . We may suppose that the rule , once ...
... vowel being shortened . The rule therefore hardly covers all the examples , and is perhaps not meant to do so , as Bopp merely includes adjectives with the meaning of the present participle . We may suppose that the rule , once ...
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a-stem abstract nouns accent added adjectives affix anunâsika anuswâra Aryan barytone Bengali Bengali and Oriya Bhojpuri case-affixes case-endings causal Chand cloth common compound consonant dative declension derived from Skr dialect DICTIONARY Edited elided English examples existence F. J. FURNIVALL feminine final vowel formation genitive Gipsy GRAMMAR grammarians Gujarati Hindi India instances latter lengthened locative long â long vowel Ludgate Hill Marathi masc masculine meaning merely modern languages neuter nominative nouns ending numerous oblique form Old-H Old-Hindi origin Orissa Oriya oxytone Panjabi particles Persian phonetic plural possession Prakrit pratyaya primary stems probably pronoun rejected retain Royal Asiatic Society rule Sanskrit secondary semivowel sense seven languages sewed short vowel shortened Sindhi Sing singular substantive suffix syllable Tatsamas termination three genders Translation Trumpp verb Verbal root wife words ending को
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