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The pronunciation of eye according to this system, would be ai i, 



but this dipthong is ai a. 



Aiat, eight Zaian, a wooden bucket 



Aiar, own Aiab, defect 



Vaias, a year Vaiad, a caste 



Daian, a fine Paiat, a market 



Laias, a glutton Aiash, enjoyment 



Jaiar, pleasure, excursion Saiat, a wick 



Maial, desire Waiar, enmity 

 Ghaial, name of a favorite resort Saial, flood 



in Cashmeer Raian, a caste 



Saiad, a sayud Maiat, a corpse 

 Maian, a frog 



7th. Diphthong of a double or prolonged short a (aa.) 



Chaauy, thine Kaar, neck 



Praauy, old, (f.) Tsaar, I have selected, (f.) 



Dyaauy, tea churns Kraar, wife of potter 



Jaauy, life Pyaar, dear, (f.) 



Zaauy, acquaintance Vyaar, a spiteful woman 



Braar, a cat, (f.) Waar, a kitchen garden plot 



Chaar, an idiot, (f.) Byaali, seeds 



A'as, mouth Myaauy, mine 



Kraauy, relations Paar, a little cottage 



Naauy, grand-mother Gaar, kernel of singara 



Siaauy, clever. Praar, dear in price 



Tsaauy I have brought in Laar, she ran after me, a cucumber 



Dyaar, a rich woman Jaar, I have lectured (her) 



Aar, an owl Jaar, keeper of her word 

 Maauush, a male buffalo, ? would seen to be different forms of this diph- 

 Maaiush, a female ditto, \ thong 



A'aas, mouth, is properly a distinct diphthong. 



Examples of the English, au in cause. 



Kaushur, a Cashmeerian Bauwuk, they have unbosomed 

 Tsaudur, name of a village themselves 



Wauwur, a weaver Rauwuk, they have lost 



Waudur, a champion Sauwuk, they have put to sleep 



Pauwur, a cottager Chauwuk, they have made drink 



Mauruk, they have killed Mauzur, a cripple 

 Chauruk, they have tightened, or Khauwur, left, (not right) 



dunned Bhauruk, they have extracted 



Wauluk, they have brought down Sauruck, they have ferried over 

 Pauwuk, they have thrown down 



Examples of the English oa in oar, written in the Persian character 

 as an alif. In some words there is a slight indication of an i preceding. 

 Broar, a cat Pishoal, soft 



Choar, a simpleton Dyoar, a rich man 



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