A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: The noun and pronounTrübner, 1876 |
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... plural with softening of k to g , as- machengoro , " fishmonger , " from macho , “ fish . ” maseskoro , " butcher , " " " mas , " flesh . " The former word is constructed with the plural because it implies " one who sells many fish ...
... plural with softening of k to g , as- machengoro , " fishmonger , " from macho , “ fish . ” maseskoro , " butcher , " " " mas , " flesh . " The former word is constructed with the plural because it implies " one who sells many fish ...
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... terminations of the dual noun of the a - stem , or that of the plural , according to the number of things expressed in the VOL . II . compound . But as the modern languages no longer possess FORMATION OF THE STEM . 129.
... terminations of the dual noun of the a - stem , or that of the plural , according to the number of things expressed in the VOL . II . compound . But as the modern languages no longer possess FORMATION OF THE STEM . 129.
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... plural ; this is unknown in Skr . , and has probably been extended to this numeral from M. ata " three . " THREE ... plural ; but as three is the first numeral that has a distinctly plural meaning - one and two being respectively ...
... plural ; this is unknown in Skr . , and has probably been extended to this numeral from M. ata " three . " THREE ... plural ; but as three is the first numeral that has a distinctly plural meaning - one and two being respectively ...
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John Beames. after , the termination of the neuter plural has usurped the place of all other plural forms . Kashmiri , a very archaic dialect , uses fg , and we may therefore place it , together with the Gipsy , P. and S. , on a higher ...
John Beames. after , the termination of the neuter plural has usurped the place of all other plural forms . Kashmiri , a very archaic dialect , uses fg , and we may therefore place it , together with the Gipsy , P. and S. , on a higher ...
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... PLURAL . SINGULAR . M. F. N. M. F. N. Hindi ...... â i e in and iân i e iân . â iyun . un â î an . ... Marathi .... â en в yâ in . Sindhi ..... 0 Gujarati 0 i It is not of course meant that these are the only terminations of the ...
... PLURAL . SINGULAR . M. F. N. M. F. N. Hindi ...... â i e in and iân i e iân . â iyun . un â î an . ... Marathi .... â en в yâ in . Sindhi ..... 0 Gujarati 0 i It is not of course meant that these are the only terminations of the ...
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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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