42 G. A. Grierson — On Irregular Causal Verhs. [March, 



Anthropological Committee. 



M. L. Uames, Esq. The Hon. Mr. H. H. Risley. 



Babu Qarat Candra Das. Raya Rajkumar Sarbadhikari Ba- 



E. A. Gait, Esq. hadur. 



R. Greeven, Esq. Major R. C. Temple, 



J. Mann, Esq. E. Thurston, Esq. 



S. E. Peal, Esq. Dr. G. Watt. 



The President announced that the Council had resolved to form a 

 Committee consisting of the President, Dr. D. D. Cunningham, Dr. A. W. 

 Alcock, Mr. T. H. Holland and Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar, with power to 

 add to their number, to invite subscriptions and take such steps as they 

 considered necessary to further the purpose of the Huxley Memorial. 



The following papers were read : — 

 1. On Irregular Causal Verhs in the Indo- Aryan Vernaculars. — By 

 G. A. Grierson, Esq., C.I.E., Ph.D. 



(Abstract.) 



In the formation of causal verbs, in the Vernaculars of Central 

 and Western India, certain verbs insert d, r, I, or n before or after the 

 causal suffix. Examples are Gujarat! hes-d-d, 'cause to sit;' SindhI, 

 sikha-r ' teach ; ' Hindi, di-l-a, ' cause to give ; ' Ka9miri, pak-an-av, 

 ' cause to go.' The origin of these inserted letters has hitherto been 

 considered obscure. 



The author points out that recent comparative philology shows 

 that in Sanskrit many verbal roots took nominal suffixes before adding 

 the personal terminations. Examples are kri-nd-ti, ' he buys,' su-noti,^ 

 ' he squeezes,' mr-na-ti, ' he kills,' krp-anya-ti, ' he is a suppliant,' 

 Id-la-ya-ti 'he causes to adhere.' Sometimes these suffixes give a 

 causal force to the root, and sometimes, so far as meaning goes, they 

 are merely pleonastic. 



The author next shows that some modera Indo- Aryan roots have 

 certainly taken similar pleonastic suffixes. As an example, he takes 

 the Sanskrit drava-ti ' he i-uns,' and shows that in some languages, it 

 takes k, in others g, in others r, in others d or r, and, in one, both 

 g and r ; so that we find the forms 



(1) druk, dok, daug, 



(2) dor, dor, daur, 



(3) dugur, all of which mean ' run.' 



He finally explains the consonants inserted in modern causals, 

 by stating that they have a similar origin. 



The paper will be published in full in the Journal, Part I. 



