173 
1872.] Hoernle — 'Essays on the Qaurian Languages. 
its utmost limit 33 (i. fi., from % to ^3 and from <3 to or rather to nothing, 
leaving the mere consonant), in Naipali it has been only half worn down 
to *3. 
Besides this class of nouns in ^ which are Pralsritic for they have an 
oblique form, the Naipali possesses also another class of nouns in <3 which 
are Proper Qaurian , because they have no oblique form, but retain their 
inflexional base in '3 throughout all cases. Such nouns are, e. g.. ^[R 
self— the Hindi e. g„ ^R «TTT *RT, i. e., Hindi RR 
% %PC %:iit «tRT, St. Luke, xxiii. 39 ; IrtT sign, e. g., ^rf<T % R fR 5 ? 
Ttfjhr, i. r., Hindi vr R ^'ruT, St. Luke ii. 10 ; and_especially the 
noun which serves as the formative of the plural ; i. e. RHH %iTI3R 
^rr ^rrfji fRRT visit, i. e., Hindi srvr ^ ’R fR^T S"RL St. Luke, 
ii. 30. The final <3 of these nouns is the substitute of the Prakrit nominative 
termination '5r, by the Gaurian law of reduction. In old and poetical Hin- 
di, as I have mentioned, nouns with this termination *3 are often met with. 
In the modern High Hindi, on the other hand, it has always worn off alto- 
gether, so that the nouns end in R or rather in a consonant. This is the 
case also in Naipali in some Proper Qaurian nouns, e. g., RTJT heat for STH, 
Wrfsm man for HTiRg. 
In conclusion 1 add a list of words in illustration of the above remarks. 
1 . — PraJcritic Nouns. 
Nom. 
word 
Gen. 
jjRT ^T, 
11 
dust 
11 
W ’ST,* 
11 
RTPiT 
eye 
11 
#T* 
» 
VIRR 
speaking 
11 
HRRT RT t 
11 
RRRT 
rising 
11 
R2RJT #T t 
2.— 
■ Qaurian Nouns. 
A- 
-Proper Gaurian. 
Nom. 
HTR 
heat 
Gen. 
RTR 3TT ; 
11 
RtIrH 
man 
11 
HlfHH %T; 
11 
jttr 
village 
11 
JTTR ; 
11 
RTR 
self 
11 
^R^T; 
-J 
11 
WTRI 
girl 
11 
11 
3T«?t 
light 
11 
3T»ft #T 
* These nouns are apparently feminine. 
t The nouns in sg and % are P erha P 3 neuters, and ought to he written with an 
anuswara (thus : ,g or ^jf). Their ? rakrit and Sanakrit originals are neuters, and they 
correspond to the Low Hindi neuters in 31 and Vjj and the Gujarati neuters in \ 3 . 
1 These nouns are feminine. 
