GO 



THE TEA.NSITITE YEEB. 



[§§ 118—122. 



Chapter IX. 



THE TRANSITIVE VERB. 



§ 118. I now proceed to give the conjugation in full of the transitive 

 verb deJchab to see. I shall not discuss the numerous personal termi- 

 nations, for they are too many, and their origin is too obscure for me to at- 

 tempt any satisfactory explanation concerning many of them. I shall 

 first, however, as briefly as possible describe the formation of the Tense 

 stems to which the personal terminations are attached. 



§ 119. (1) Tenses formed from the Root. 



a. The stem of the Prospective Conditional is the root itself unaltered, 

 to which the personal terminations are added directly. 



§ 120. h. The Future has two distinct stems, one formed by adding 

 " '^-ab directly to the root, and the second by adding either directly 



to the root, or with an intermediate "fi-e (in the latter case the initial o^-a 

 of the stem termination being omitted) . We thus get deTi-lial}, and $<dd 

 delcliat^ or %i%fr dehhit. To either of these stems the termination °'i\-ga, 

 can optionally be sufBxed, It seems to me that one of these forms is 

 derived from the infinitive. That the futm-e is frequently formed from 

 infinitives is well known to students of comparative philology. Familiar 

 examples are the Sanskrit VfRi d I hhavitdsmi " I am to be"* or "I 

 ■shall be" and the French faimer-ai " I have to love", or " I shall 

 love ". In the same way we have <<d5|Jl delcliab-ga " I go to see", that 

 is " I shall see. " In ordinary conversation the final termination "^jt go, 

 may be left out, but the above is the full form, and it is that to which we 

 must look for a derivation. 



§ 121. With respect to the stem ^f%cr dehhit or 5^f| dehhat, I have no 

 distinct suggestion to make as to its formation. It seems to be connected 

 in some way with the present participle, but how I do not know. 



§ 122. I venture to suggest one deriyation of this form, which I only 

 put forward to invite discussion, and not with any persuasion as to its truth. 

 Is it possible that ^f%cr delchit may be connected with a low Sanskrit form of 

 ^f^cfr darsita, the less common form of the periphrastic future of ^ drid 

 " to see "? The derivation does not seem to me to be veiy violent, but I 

 have no proof to offer of it, and only put it forward as a suggestion and 

 nothing more. 



* *ff^^ " a be-er" is evidently closely connected with the infinitive 

 wftg " to be". 



