Grammar Of Apabhramsa

Author(s): Madhusudan Mishra
Publisher: Vidyanidhi Prakashan

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A Grammar of Apabhramsa
ending -ï for hi in Lsg., where the base vowel too is shortened: siya-i for siya-hi.
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47. The quantity of the final vowel of the ending also is dependent on metre. Thus sometimes the metre requires bāla-hě and sometimes bāla-he.
48. During the dark period Hindi and other vernaculars, the stems appeared in the language. continued in the language we do not know. Perhaps the postpositions, which had already grown up, were waiting for the moment and usurped the offices of the endings on the next morning.
49. The masc. and fem. Hindi words remained content with their original forms in sg.. but in pl. the masc. words bore endings before the post-positions and as vocative, and the fem. words bore endings also as subject-object.
(a) Some masc. words ending with a also take e-form as subject-object in pl. and as vocative and before postpositions in sg. This was probably due to the influence of the Persian language.
This is very briefly about the declension of the nouns and adjectives.
Let us see their forms.
(a) First person
sg
preceding the emergence of endings were lost and bare How long this state of affairs
50. The pesonal pronouns have expected forms in Apbh. The notable peculiarity is that 2-3 have fallen together in sg. and 5-6 in both.
1.
2-3.
hau
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mai
मई
Pronouns
1-2. amhe,
अम्हे
3. ambe-hi
arafe
pl.
amhai 37755