Book Title: Grammar Of Apabhramsa Author(s): Madhusudan Mishra Publisher: Vidyanidhi PrakashanPage 57
________________ CHAPTER FIVE Word-formation, Compounds and Indeclinables 116. In the first chapter we have discussed the origin of Apbh from its immediate predecessor Prakrit and its development into the modern vernaculars. In the second chapter we have discussed the Apbh sounds as far as they have evolved from Sanskrit and middle Indic and merged with Hindi and 0.) er modern vernaculars. In the third chapter the declension wi nouns, pronouns and adjectives has been taken up as briefly a3 possible. In the last chapter we have taken up the verbs in all their details. In this chapter we should have taken up only the indeclinables. But it could have ended in one or two paragraphs. Therefore we are going to discuss all the little things like wordformation and compounds. In the next chapter we will fully discuss the Apbh syntax. Word-formation 117. In the literary Apbh we find that the words of Sanskrit origin are freely used with the appropriate phonetic changes. But there are a few primary suffixes also by whichPage Navigation
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