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Language of the Gonds, 



4 1 



Early 



Now 



To-day 



Yesterday 



Sake 



Inaki -\ 

 Nedh i 

 Ninne ) 



To-morrow Gondi Navi. 

 Yes „ Hao. 



No 



IV. Specimens of Adjectives. 

 Full Gondi Nintha. 



Many 



words, &JLQu-(ig pj*.&£sc 

 The peculiar force of the 

 prefixes j>/,a.fD,£, <sr ai, (as 

 in pain) in the Tamil, ap- 

 pears, as far asone can judge 

 from theEnglish characters, 

 in which the Gondi words 

 are written, to be common 

 to their dialect also. 



& it <s.n ib> Sakarum, " ftp 

 :~ es> rrfi rkj&o), the removal 

 of sleep.''' Negandu, § 26. 

 The Tamil word for 

 Gondi. to-day being ^s^ew^d^, 

 but vulgarly pronounced 

 " Inaki" and for yester- 

 day Gjbjdjp, pronounced 

 also Nathoo, expressions 

 which are so like the Nedh 

 of the Gonds for to-day 

 and Inaki for now, one is 

 almost led to suspect some 

 inadvertent mistake to have 

 occurred in the position 

 and signification of these 

 three words as they now 

 stand in the list. 

 Tamil pnl&r, Nalei. 

 ^ih, am. 

 Nalle. „ «jya>a>, alia, " not 



the opposite to <^tV 

 — Rottler. 



Tamil ^au^^, full, nire- 

 intha. 



Walle. „ ejn-o) val, the same 



as abundance." 

 —Rottler. 



