Grammar Of Apabhramsa

Author(s): Madhusudan Mishra
Publisher: Vidyanidhi Prakashan

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Word-formation, Compounds and Indeclinables
developed from Sanskrit by the usual phonetic change : ajja (today), embai/embabi (thus), kaba vi (any how), kivã/kās/kai (why), cia (just), ji (just), to (then), to vi (even then), tti (thus), pacchai (later), na vi (not at all) vi (even), sahũ (with) hu (indeed), etc.
Some others are conjunctions : aha (and, if), aha...aha (either...or), aha va (or), jai vi (even if), jau (if), dhrũ...tram (because...so), nāí (as if), ju (that), etc.
Some of them are meaningless : ghaî, khāī, etc. Some others indicate manner, location, quantity, limit :
Manner : kema, jema, tema; kevã, jevã, tevã, kivã, jivã, tivã, kiha, jiha, tiha; kidha, jidha, tidha; etc.
Location : ketthu, jetthu, tetthu, etthu Limit: jāvā, tāvā; jāmabi, tāmahĩ; jāma, tāma; etc.
(a) Some indeclinables are loose combinations : vāra i vāra (again and again), ěkka i vāra (only once), etc.
These and other indeclinables are to be learnt from the dictionaries as regards their various meanings and idiomatic usage.