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ing of the vowel after the analogy mati : matiyo, mālā : mālāyo Pk. mālāo. Gray suggests that it is mālā and the consonantal ending -as. Ab. sing. mālāo is analogical after devāo. Ab. plu. mālāhinto is composite as devehinto. I. G. L. sing. mālāe is according to Pischel, Bloch, Geiger the D.-G. mālayai of the Brahmanas and Upanişads used as G. Alsdorf suggests that mālāe is a phonetic variant of mālāya which is older and in agreement with Pāli kaññāya. This form may have arisen by rhythmic change like muninā : munina ; sāhunā; sāhūņa of Mas. nouns.
190 Present tense of roots belonging to Class III. They usually end in 31, T or 37. The terminations are directly applied to them. The termination for loses its 37 after roots ending in g or sit, and optionally becomes upar after roots ending in 347. 191 The forms of a root like a 'to be will be :
I. p. A होमो II. p. alle de
III. P. ETE Elfar (but arufaa) Similarly are to be conjugated other roots like :झिया to think उवट्ठा to wait upon गा to sing a to blow 8 to stand À to lead
to give à to speak 5 to come. 192 Athematic roots of the second class usually preserve a stem ending in -ā: māi 'to measure' (mā-) ; vā- 'to blow' vāi; bhā- 'to shine' bhāi; snā- 'to bathe' nhāi, siņāi ; khyā- 'to tell' akkhāi ; ;- 'to go' ei; brū- 'to speak' bei ; some roots of the third conjugation : dā- 'to give' dei ; dhū- 'to place' ādhāi ; ha* to abandon' jahāi ; one of the ninth conjugation : aś- 'to eat' aṇhāi. Of thematic roots we have ji- 'to conquer' jeu ; ni- 'to lead' nei ; di- 'to fly'uddei ; Ti- 'to cling' lei; bhū- 'to become' hoi ; gai- 'to sing" gāi ; dhyai- 'to think' jhāi, jhiyāi ; sthā- 'to stand' thāi; khād-'to eat' khāi ; in conformity with the epic
