Indian Antiquary Vol 28

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JANUARY, 1899.
(5) [After ts, te, 4 tsh, and ; x, in this declension, every y is dropped and every i ore in the plural becomes a. Thus, a mats, a mad woman; nom. pl. matse; instr. pl. mutsar; dat. pl. um matsan.]
216. 4th Declension (Feminine, i and a base). (1) Arabic words in 1 at, like cha jama'at, assembly, multitude, ja qudrat power, change, in the same cases the final t intots. [The final a of
w a t is changed to 14.] In the singular, all case terminations are dropped. Thus:--
Sing.; instr., dat., abl., loc., e-k jamátąte; genitive, ció en les jamátate hond : os
so also us ejus qudrats-wól, a mighty one.
Plar; instr جما عمر .
jama'atego; dat., loc., ahl
جما عین ,. jama'auteur : gen جماعهن .
is jamáętaan hond. (Note the Terminations av instead of au, and an instead
of an.) (2) Final - at becomes, in the same cases (the case terminations being similarly omitted in the singular) & Oto; e. g, - 1,51 ad-rát, midnight, 87, ami aji rôts, at mid-night ; 06
از چه راج taateen rdtoon جنین را چن ;yemiy nts, on this night يمی راج ; at thi rate, tonight
for forty nights; was, wjó tran rôtoan, for three pights ; b
ons said To róta handi teórm,
pakra, at the fourth watch of the night. So also decline lys, wakrát, the rainy season.
The above is as given by the author, but the role is really much wider. With certain exceptions, all nouns of the fourth declension
ending in t change it to. to
th
is .. $
In
sh and some in Ji Before this changed letter every a becomes — 9, and every 1 & becomes 8. Examples are wl, rdt, night, l, rôts; tis koth, a hank, Skotsk; js grand, a counting. As grans : w yiran, an anvil, wy! yaran; kah, the eleventh lunar day, w kosh, Jl, wdl, a hole. et, waj.
The words in J I which follow this rule are Jl, sál, a hole; J sál, a wife's sister; J ! edi, a net; us kal, consideration; JC hal, house (generally, but sometimes masculine at the end of a compound, as in Jhes toatahdi, a school-house); and, optionally, ukis kundal, a kind of cup, and Jós kartal, a sword.
* Np. (Mark, xiii. 85) has in ono imetanoa daTo rotea
Everywhere else, as above.