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Is the Pushto a Semitic Language ? 



Sans 



. trin9at Pers 



. ^g** Zen< 



1 thri9ata Pu 



jj 



chatvarin9at 



<^W jj 



chathvare9£ 



jj 



pancha^at 



jj 



*Uf^ „ 



panch^ata 



jj 



shashti 



jj 



o.~~-*> „ 



csva9ti „ 



» 



saptati 



jj 



ill&A „ 



haptaiti „ 



jj 



a9iti 



jj 



^LLmA rf 



a9taiti ,. 



jj 



navati 



jj 



& jj 



navaiti „ 



jj 



9ata 



jj 



**» „ 



9ata „ 



jj 



9van 



jj 



!(ljuotort-^w spa „ 



jj 



aham 



jj 



U* jj 



azem „ 



jj 



tara 



jj 



JSjllw „ 



stare „ 



Prakrit se 



jj 



<—J JJ 



he „ 



Sans 



. 9ushka 



jj 



lS£.±> „ 



hushka „ 



jj 



svap 



jj 



vl?^ jj 



qaf „ 



jj 



svasa 



jj 



^L^jj 



qanha „ 



jj 



khan 



jj 



^ „ 



jj 

 kan „ 



jj 



sam 



jj 



r* » 



ham. „ 



jj 



sarva 



jj 



> jj 



haurva „ 



jj 



dhav 



jj 



>> jj 



du „ 



jj 



hrid-aya 



jj 



J^or.iyi. 



zere-dhaya 



jj 



hir-anya 



jj 



JJ jj 



zara „ 



» 



jir-na 



n 



JJ jj 



zar „ 



jj 



harit 



jj 



•>JJ jj 



zairita „ 



jj 



hima 



jj 



(V jj 



zima „ 



Ved. 



jrna 



jj 



u^3 j, 



zema (huz- 



[No. 4. 

 - 30. 



xj-j^H (pandzos)— 50. 



&lxx£ (shpetaj — 60. 



b>| (awyaj— 70. 



b3| (atiya)— 80. 



iSJ (nwi)— 90. 



JUo (sal)t— 100. 



^ (spge) dog. 

 If} (zo) I. 



^j-jyLw (store) star. 

 iJ (ye) him. 

 ^j (wuch) dry. 

 c^yjk (khoh) sleep. 

 ^^ijjA. (Mwainde) sis- 

 jjL. (khor) sister, [ters. 

 &i^ (kana) dig. 

 *A (hum) also. 

 Xj\j (wara) all. 

 j$ (dau) run. 

 Xj) (zro) heart. 

 jj (zar) gold. 

 JJ) ( z °r) old. 

 ^j) (zyar) yellow. 

 &*J (zhima) winter. 

 &£/oj (zmaka) earth, 

 varesh p^QU) 



into I as usual ; but in the compound numbers, 21, 22, etc. another form much 

 closer to the Zend appears : *£**»i jjj *^^> j& etc. 



* In the Zend, it is evidently the cata which expresses the tens ; of this the 

 Pushto retains the first letter alone ; in the following number, 40, it curtails the 

 Zend much less ; indeed it loses only the unessential termination, and the single 

 letter r which is lost by being crowded out. It has already become plain to the 

 reader, that it is long and weighty vowels only that survive in the modern lan- 

 guages ; the short ones are soon lost by attrition. 



\ The dental into I. 



