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suit 
*uit 
‘ a stick.’ 
331$ 
‘ a mat.’ 
3T3 
3T3 
‘ a word.’ 
XTrT 
Tiff 
‘ night.’ 
Exceptions. 
Masculine. 
^fft 
Trft 
‘ an elephant.’ 
33$ 
3T3 
‘ a village.’ 
snit 
ff^T 
‘ a black-ant.’ 
3T3 
‘ boiled rice. ’ 
Feminine. 
‘ pulse.’ 
‘ a shield.’ 
— 
‘ a neck-ring.’ 
xfrvir 
‘ a kind of veil.’ 
and others as described below. 
31. Abstract nouns 
in 3, 33 , 
33, 'WT, XT3, 3T, 113, 
masculine. 
Those in $, ft, 33T$, xf 
. 3JT3, ft, are feminine. 
Examples,— 
Masculine. 
Feminine. 
fb*I3, 1 meeting.’ 
5l3lTft, ‘ ripeness.’ 
f33(3, ‘ drinking.’ 
3Jllft, ‘ cheating.’ 
35IT33, ‘ decking.’ 
ffXTt- ‘ giving to drink. 
3JIT33, ‘ cheating.’ 
3iT3$ ‘acidity.’ 
®3IT, 1 touching.’ 
f«3T3, 1 sweetness.’ 
ff 5IT3, ‘ union.’ 
U37Xrft, * confusion.’ 
‘ sourness.’ 
32. Feminines are formed from masculines as follows : 
(1) Masculines in form their feminines in $ ; Thus, — 
Masculine. Feminine. 
ZTT, * a hoy.’ ‘ a girl’. 
3t*RT or t^fT, ‘ a master.’ ®t€t or «ft, ‘ a mistress.’ 
(2) Long forms in 73T form their feminines in ; thus, — 
ffV73T, ‘ a horse.’ ntf^T, ‘ a mare.’ 
33731, ‘ an old man.’ «ff33T, ‘an old woman.’ 
so also 
gfxXT ‘ a hullalo bull-calf.’ ^fx^TT ‘ a bufEalo heifer.’ 
(3) Sometimes in the last case TfsR is substituted for T*n ; thus, — 
3373T, 1 a tiger.’ «jU7f33, ‘ a tigress.’ 
