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1873.] A. F. Rudolf Hoernle— Essays on the Gaurian Languages . 
■qr% rrnrq i 
II I, 26. 
Or ^.rf^Rqiqr^ i qrfqq fr ^ qq^ n 
^ ^ TM I f^^STT fc*r II IV, 220. 230. 
or 
qrqw fq^Kq II 
qTtq q?T I 
^ W ^ftq *rnrq II IV, 204 207. 
qrf^g ^rr qqrb I fw*f qtr*n$R n IV, 278. 
An instance of the neuter in occurs, e. g., in the following verse : 
q»T ^Tf% q^q l 
TT^t^r qT ^tf^R II I, 26. 
In the last verse vrrfsR and Tifaq are probably contractions of qq-fq-q and 
T«Ti*T^ for Skr. vn^*ffq and "qqqtq in the sense of the infinitive. In the 
former verses ^WT^R stands for qqq for qq', qnj^q for qnrnr 
fq^TPR for fq^TR; ^T*R for wq; qiqfi for qiq. And the only, and 
natural, way of explaining the origin of these amplified forms is by the 
theory that the shorter forms were increased by the addition of the Prakrit 
affix qr; thus we should have (with the usual elision of qr ) the Prakrit 
forms q^i% ^TXK% fWTP% qiqqj and finally these forms 
would change in Gaurian by the usual insertion of the euphonic q into 
^wrr, qqq, etc.* 
Such neuters as etc., prove clearly that general principle 
which has been stated already, that the Prakrit affix qr was not only added 
to participles past passive, but also to substantives and adjectives ; though 
this is a fact, which perhaps hardly needed to be particularly stated. But 
these neuters account very well for the Marathi neuter adjectives and 
substantives in q as ^3 ^ high, tanlc, etc. For the termination qfq as 
previously shown naturally contracts into q .f Hence, e. g., ^^"presupposes 
an older form which stands for just as qJljT«R for qj^rrsT. 
Me have now seen that the Prakrit neuter nouns (Part., Adj., Subst.) 
may pass into the Gaurian either in the general form of their base ending 
# I may add here, once more, in explanation, that it is not to be supposed that 
every Gaurian neuter actually passed through these different steps of phonetic 
modification. The process of neuter formation, detailed here, only took place really 
when Gaurian first separated form Prakrit. After it had become the rule in Gauriau, 
that neuters must end in or q or many neuters, of course, were formed 
which never passed through any of the steps of the process ; e. g. the neuter q^q 
is formed direct form the Sanskrit qq. If it had passed really (as ideally it must bo 
c\ 
supposed to have passed) through that process, it would liavo been eithor qqq- or 
. , t. <\ ' 
q«qqj for the Prakrit of qq is qoq. 
vj Cv ^ . 
f In Col. Vans Kennedy’s Marathi Dictionary tho form vG is givon fo qq fear. 
