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5) Rad kol kaemiyan, Pali raajakulakammikanam, " the 

 workmen or officers of the royal family." Kol see IV. 24. 



6) Waeriyan, plural of waeriya " enemy" = vairin. 



7) Gamgen, literally " having taken the village" (gen = 

 gena Gerund of gannawa), i. e*, "from the village." At 

 present this way of forming the ablative is confined to 

 animates, inanimates having adopted the old instrumental 

 instead. 



8) Geri, plural of geriya " bullock," comp. Hindi guru, 

 Gipsy guruv, guri (Paspati Les Tchingianes.) It is distin- 

 guished from gona "bullock" in an inscription of the 10th 

 or 11th century ; but lam unacquainted with the difference. 



9) Gannd from gannawa " to take" (for gananawa, Pali 

 ganha, Skt. grhna.) 



10) Gael, gaela "cart" from Skt* gantri, comp. Hindi 

 gadi, Mar. gadi, Sindhi gadi, Pashto gadai. 



11) Miwun, plural of miwa mahisha " buffalo" (comp. 

 IV. 8f.) At present "buffalo" is mtharakd, i. e., miwa + 

 haraka " ox," older saraka, derived, by inversion of syllables, 

 either from Skt. cakvara, <^akkara, cakvara, eakkara " a 

 bull, an ox" or from cakata " a draught-ox." 



12) Waddleyin see above A. 28. 13) see above B. 24. 



13) Me kdp etc., see above A. 9-10 and ff. 



D. 



1 ) Awud, at present aewlt " having come," past participle 

 of enawa " to come," seems derived from Vvrt. 



2) Denuladi " has been given" = Pali danam aladdhi 

 " received giving." 



