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GRAMMAR
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In several of the exceptions to the above law in our text, the length of the final vowel is protected by a following enclitio. Thus we have #fè 410, 470, 480; Fa 1950, 1960 (Pas-fa also occurs), Fra 1976; a-fa 80b; #-94e, 183c, d ; -gu 94f, a-103a, RF-4 1936.
Contraction explains (a) nom, and acc. plurals (see § 28. ii.) TET 316, Eforie 316, 3 pl 55d, 1776, 806, er 1506, TU 1666; Tia 746, 11641 82b, TIET 41a; (b) acc. sing. aret (masc.) 886; (c) fem. nom. singulars in °377° : qatar 70a, affer 92a and AFETT 92B (each of the three ending a 917 ); cf. Tie 113f; (d) enlarged fem. F-stems appearing with : grijdt 29a, Vis 296, faeda 48a, with 50c, faiat 68d, fait 706, Pasaiat 118e, quidi 155a, forjat 186a, triat 217d; ET 780, 1990, fase 1540, 7311 of 1566, 747 1610, fast 182d; AUTENTI-gufts 216c,d, 926483 2170; vagaquir 220a, ora fti 2206; FATE 205d; Fis 179d, 219d, fiat 219c; fôrtie 210a, #TIF 2106. 341eft-qrafts 151a,b are metrically unsupportable. (e) masc. in 59 appearing with : 977 796, afeit 896; (f) enlarged 3-stems appearing with °5: fią (= fam) 59c, 317€ (= 3764) 566; (g) 776 (in a Dohā) quite fapıiliar to the New Indian.
There are prosodic grounds for सो 1110 (in a यमक) and दिसासु 2016 (at the end of a trochaically closing 9).
The rest are the feminines # 27c, jai 55c, 731 169d; pronominal plurals # 45a, à 940, 2066; the indeclinable seat 916.
§ 42. Light and heavy endings. Most of the dyssyllabic flexion-endings in Ap. appear in a double form, as light (-u) or heavy (--). Thus the absolutives end in efa or gfa. This double set of endings has arisen either due to the end syllable of the stem being anceps or due to the employment of the Pk. endings besides the corresponding usual Ap. ones. As in the San. and KP., here also in every case the forms with the light endings far exceed those with the heavy ending. Thus masc, 37-stems :
instr. sing. in ogur (70) 26 times in pur 9 times;
1 These six words except it occur in the Dohā-portion of the text
whose language appears in certain respects a bit more advanced in
development than that of the rest of the text. 2 Fem. forms in '317 or soccurring in Prakritized stanzas have been
excluded from this consideration,
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