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§ 6. 
vowels if one of them is 7 or é €.g. piyau : piau, gaye : gae) 
and w if the first vowel is % or 6 (e.g. chuwai: chuat, rowal' : 
roat'). 
Intervocalic y is inserted optionally between two 
( 
§ Any vowel which is-long in a base or root is 
shortened if it is more than two syllables from the end of a 
word when declined or conjugated. This occurs only when 
one of the two syllables is — or both being short, the word 
ends in a consonant, e.g. 2 + that > dekhihai, dekh + iba 
> dekhiba, but dékh + Pe > dékhib; dtkh + aten > dekhaten 
but dékh + e& > dékhet 
—When once the shortening of a vowel has taken 
. place according to this rule it remains in spite of the condi- 
tions being disturbed on account of a later elision of a vowel, 
e.g. man + atiti > manatit ; in spite of the elision of a the 
first vowel remains short in mantii 
me postpositions have two forms!—short and 
long. The es form is used afte 
(1) —e ca. 
nal long vowel, e.g. 
(b) a a short ook whether follow edior _ - one 
onso e.g. da ka acchar*, ghar 
(2) Jenin cecitainins two pol slice ‘a a 
final sho rt vowel, a kehi : 
The short form is used afte 
(1) monosyllables containin 
(a) a aes vowel followed by a consonant, e.g. 
(6) a aoee — followed by two consonants, 
e.g. m e; 
(2) dissyllables roses ng 
short avilable of which one, ends in a 
consonant, e.g. phanti ka, ahir s 
(6) one or more a syllables, e.g. hia s > hias', 
(3) all polysylabes e.g. senate s°, kaharan s°, nau- 
Note 1 ai. A last vowel of a word preceding a short 
postposition is long it is pronounced short, e.g. ghora + 8 7 
ghora s°; nant + 8° > nani s° 
ote 2.—If the word after which a long postposition is 
used, is lengthened, by adding a termination or otherwise , the 
long postposition can no longer be used after it, e.g. ghar sé 5 but 
gharahe s°,i ka but 7 ma 
§ 9. The following sandhis have been observed :— 
(1) if ¢ or w comes between two vowels of the same 
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1 Vide Chaat V1§ 91 aaa ts Chap. VII §§ 135-138. 

