1880.] 



THE H'OTTIf. 



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Borrowed 



surgo 



speech 





lero 



camel 





daddo, 



pony 



Si. dradro 



paraddo, 



echo 



Si. parando 



ghoro. 



a band of horse 





shaddo 



a turban 





lekho 



reckoning. 





This nearly corresponds in sound to the close English o, and never 

 has the open Italian sound. Most words ending in o change it to av when 

 followed by a vowel, whether this vowel commences a following word or 

 an inflectional suffix. The o of the first eight words in the above list 

 (diif/do to jo inclusive) does not undergo this change. Go and jo are 

 radical words, and the others end in the syllables lo and hho which pro- 

 bably had originally a distinct force of their own ; e. g., 



nakho 7 „ , , , f na7c7«oa.n 

 > form the plural { ■ , 

 JO > ^ ( joaji 



but pbalc ) . „ , 1 f phalava 



. T 1 5- are inflected \ • , j 

 jaddo ) ( jaddava. 



pihav ' leopard' may be classed with words ending in o, though I have 

 never heard the termination pronounced otherwise than av. This v is a 

 purely labial sound, not the English v. 



U'. u as a termination does not seem to occur in pure Balochi words. 

 It is found in a few words of Sindhi origin and undergoes no change in 

 inflections j e. g., 



ami, an egg 

 tilii, a bell 

 varu, a beam 

 Hmua, lemon (Arabic). 

 E has not been met with except in kahne ' pigeon,' also pronounced 

 kahni. 



Au is only found \njau ' barley.' 



3. Special terminations. 



(a). Verbal Nouns, 



Affh. This is the termination of the infinitive, and verbal noun which 

 corresponds with it in form. It apparently corresponds with the Pashto 

 verbal noun in ah, as final ffh in Balochi generally corresponds with Persian 

 h. A(/h as a termination corresponds with the Persian termination ah in 

 many other nouns; e. g , rama^y/i "a flock of goats," ahanjay7« "a sash" &c. 

 Some are verbal nouns in form as gwanza_<77i " a swing." The termination 

 B,(/h also forms collective nouns as murdanay7i " the fingers," from murdan, 

 phut/7/a^74 " legs," from phaf/7i. 



