No. 25 — 1882.] SINHALESE AND ARYAN VERNACULARS, 237 



Feminine, 

 geni, " Woman. 



om. ] 



CC V 

 ISt. J 



Nam 

 A 



Inst 

 Aux. 

 Bat 



AM. 



Gen. 



Loc. 



Voc. 



Sing. 



0, ta 

 6K53£Tf, gen 



©est, ge 



Pli 



G*s$i un, an 

 G&S, un, an 



<5^9, unta, anta 



( ^^©co^, an gen ) 



tine ) 

 ane \ 



Neuter 









"Tree." 





Singula 





Plural 



Norn.. 







| same as stem 



Acc. 





Inst. 







Aux. 





era 



£)(3^t, valin 



Bat. 





ata 



SqO, valuta 



AM. 





en 



valin 



Gen. 







Loc. 





e 





Voc. 





a 



©(3*9, valani 



The verb has three forms for the three persons and no 

 forms for the three genders. Thus : — <^cS, u ye, "he goes" 

 ^ <^g5, 6 ye, " she goes"; ^^e) ®c0, nezt?a ye, " the' ship goes." 



" In the Aryan languages the personal terminations of the 

 verb are abraded pronouns, or rather pronominal types." So 

 are they in Sinhalese. 



In Prakrit the terminations are : — 

 Present Tense. 

 Singular. 



1 mi as hasanii, "Ismiie" 



2 £3, si as &>S3&, hasasi, "You smile" 



3 <g>, i as S5S3<g>, hasai, " He smiles " 



Plural. 



1. ©®3, mo, mu, as <2aea§), hasimo, hasimu, "We smile" 



2. an, 7?rc, as hasaha, "Ye smile" 



3 ^£rf<^, awii, as finesse, hasanti, " They smile" 



