Grammar Of Apabhramsa

Author(s): Madhusudan Mishra
Publisher: Vidyanidhi Prakashan

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Declension
(a) The extended form generally ends with -u in Nsg.: kanta kantau, mahāra-a mahāra-u (my ). But some times the extend - ed form takes the ending -u, which is regarded by the grammarians as a neuter form : tucchaū (thin), bhaggaū ( wounded), etc.
44. Though the NA show the ending -ū in sg. and ai/ai in pl., this feature is a rare one and also without any regard to the original gender of the word. Even though the Apbh words were distributed as masc. and fem., the neuter endings had survived. Sometime later the sg. ending-ũ disappeared and the pl. ending -ãi / ai assumed two forms : ē and yã. These were reserved for the feminine words in Hindi.
45. Now we can take up the declension of the fem - words.
(a ) bālā (girl), sahi (girl friend) vahu (bride).
sg
pl.
sahi
सही
1-2 bālā
बाला
V. bāla-e sahi-e
बालए सहिए
3. bāla-e sahi-e बालए
सहिए
5-6. bāla-he
वाल
7. bala-hi
बालहि
sahi-he
सहि
sahi-hi
सहिहि
vahu
वहू
vahu-e
bālā-o
बालाओ
हु
vahu-hi
बहुहि
bāla-ho
बाल हो
वहुए
vahu-e
bala-hi
वहुए
बालहिं
bahu-he väla-hu
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वालहु
bāla-hĩ
बालहि
sahi-o सहिओ
vabu-o
बहुओ
sahi-ho vahu-ho
सहिहो
वहुहो
sahi-hi vahu-hi
सहहि
वहुहि
sahi-hu vahu-hu
हि
वहु हु
sahi-hi
vahu-hi
सहि
वहुहि
Note: The ablative and genitive have fallen together in fem. declension. There is an additional form bālā-u as well as sahi-u (but vahu-u is naturally impossible) in NA pl. and, while the former has retained the long vowel the latter has shortened it. But, as a matter of fact, the length of a vowel of a base is unimportant in Apbh. It is generally determined by metre.
46. In very late Apbh. the fem. a base also takes the