1890.] 
A Grammar of the Ohhattisgarhi dialect. 
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PART II. NOUNS. 
Chapter II. Formation of Nouns. 
( Secondary and other nominal suffixes.) 
11. Secondary suffixes form nouns from other nouns, as distinct 
from primary suffixes which form them from roots. 
12. The following secondary suffixes are those given by the author. 
The translator has added references to Dr. Hoornle’s Gaudian Grammar 
which will be found useful. Primary suffixes will be found discussed in 
chapter X. 
13. Some of the so-called suffixes given by the author are not 
tadbhavas, being either tatsamas or of foreign derivation. These the 
translator has put at the end after the others. 
14. NT, feminine 'it, signifies a person connected with anything, or a 
vessel for containing anything. 
Example, — 
‘ a traveller ’ from ‘ a road.’ 
tftTUT ‘ a rider ’ from HUT ‘ a horse,’ 
HaTTT^T or I ‘ a marketer,’ ‘ a petty shopkeeper,’ 
fom. ) from «tT5TTT, ‘ a market.’ 
‘ an oil- vessel ’ ‘ oil.’ 
fHHUT ‘ a gM-vessel ’ ffa ‘ ghi.’ 
‘ a milk- vessel ’ ‘ milk.’ 
See Gd. Gr. §§ 206, 207. 
15 . ^ added to nouns forms nouns of agency. 
Example, — 
‘ illusion ’ ‘ one who causes illusion.’ 
See Gd. Gr. §§ 209, 1, b and 210. 
16. or added to adjectives forms abstract nouns. 
Examples, — 
‘ acrid.’ 
‘ beautiful.’ 
1 sour.’ 
17. VT or tfvr 
‘ acridity.’ 
or ‘ beauty.’ 
‘ sourness.’ 
See Gd. Gr. §§ 220, 221. 
added to adjectives forms abstract nouns. 
Examples, — 
H3TT < 0 i d > 1 old age.’ 
W ‘ sour ’ ‘ sourness ’ 
See Gd. Gr. §§ 228, 229. 
18. Diminutives are formed by using the feminine termination i. 
