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Is the Ptislito a Semitie Language ? 



[No. 4. 



Sans. trin9at Pers 

 „ chatvárii^at 

 n panchá9at „ 

 „ shashti „ 

 „ saptati „ 

 „ a9Íti „ 



„ navati 

 „ 9^ta 

 „ 9van 

 „ aham 

 „ tárá 



Prakrit se 



Sans. 9ushka 

 „ svap 

 „ svasá 



^ Zend thrÍ9ata PiishtoJ^á^ (dersh)* — 30. 

 ¿4^ „ chathvare9ata c~fj^ (tsalwesfct) 40. 

 panchá9ata u»j* x t (pandzos)— 50. 



A 



O.MMAM 



aü¿4 



¿y 



&+0 



csva9ti 



haptáiti 



a9táiti 



navaiti 



9ata 



»ljusí|or<-í^o spá 





azem 



stáre 



he 



hushka 



qaf 



qanha 



khan „ 



sam „ 



sarva „ 



dháv „ 



hrid-aya ,¿ 

 hir-anya 

 jír-na 

 harit 

 „ hima 

 Ved. jma 





kan „ 



ham „ 



haurva ,, 

 du „ 



dzoYdys» zere-dhaya 





60. 

 70. 

 80. 

 90. 

 100. 



zara , 



zar , 



zairita ,, 

 zima „ 

 zema (huz 

 varesh p^D^) 



&Íjo^» (shpeta) 



bj! (awyá) — 



Ij3| (atiyá) — 



<_cy (nwí) — 



j*« (sal)f — 



^ (spse) dog. 

 S) (zó) I. 



iSjjü» (store) star. 

 <J (ye) him. 

 ^j (wuch) dry. 

 4-»^ (khob) sleep. 

 ^jJjjÁ. (Mwainde) sis- 

 ^L (khor) sister. [tere 

 &>S (kana) dig. 

 *A (hum) also. 

 3/lj (wára) all. 

 j¿ (dau) run. 

 8¿} (zró) heart. 

 jj ( zar ) g° ld - 



Jjj ( z °r) old - 

 ^3 ( z y ar ) yeiiow. 



*^j 4 (zhima) winter. 

 A&oj (zmaka) earth. 



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

 closer to the Zend appears : *¿*£*¿jj¿ C*¿o 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 singlo 

 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 d Mital into l. 



