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[No. 1, 
Essays in aid of a Comparative Grammar of the Gaurian Languages.—Py 
Rev. A. F. Rudolf Hoerjstle, L). Ph., Tubingen , Professor of San¬ 
skrit, Lay Ndrayaids College , Pandr as. 
(Continued from Journal for 1873, Pt. I., p. 108.) 
Y .—Essay on the Inflexional Ease of masc. and fern, nouns. 
In the former essay the Inflexional base of neuter nouns has been 
discussed. It has been shown that the direct form of the inflexional base 
of neuter nouns may have a two-fold ending, either in ^ or in %f , Cf, 
y, x" Hi $ and that the Gaurian ending represents the Sanskrit (monosyl¬ 
labic) ending , and the Prakrit ending ^3; whereas the other Gaurian 
terminations are contractions of some final Sanskrit or Prakrit dissyllable, 
as Skr. X^K, or P^k. X%, and conse¬ 
quently, that if the Gaurian neuter noun ended in ^f, f't etc., but its 
corresponding Skr. neuter noun in , the former cannot he directly 
derived from the latter, hut in order to obtain the necessary terminal 
dissyllable, the base of the Skr. neuter must he increased bv the addition 
of the peculiar Prakrit affix eff, and the Gaurian neuter directly derived from 
the Prakrit neuter, thus amplified from the Sanskrit. Most of the Gaurian 
neuters in ^f, Y etc., come under the last category ; i. e ., all except 
the Infinitives and Gerunds and a few others. In general, the rule may be 
stated thus : that Gaurian neuters in are derived from the general base 
common to both Sanskrit and the Prakrit, while the Gaurian neuters in 
^qf, ip, ■'*, etc., are derived from the particular Prakrit base formed by the 
affix W (see Illrd Essay, p. 154). Again, as regards the oblique form of the 
Gaurian neuter inflexional base, it was shown that it is merely a corruption 
or curtailment of the Prakrit organic genitive. 
The case of the inflexional base of masc. and fern, nouns in Gaurian is 
exactly analogous. To prove this will he the object of the present essay. 
I shall first investigate the inflexional base of the feminine, afterwards 
that of the masculine. 
The direct form of the inflexional base of the Gaurian feminine nouns 
which are derived from a (Sanskrit) base in % may he, like that of the 
Gaurian neuters, of a two-fold kind, viz., it may either terminate in ^ or in 
X ; e. g., barren ivoman is (Skr. ^^Tr) or ‘twf (Skr. of the base 
; sheep is or of the base etc. These two forms do not 
always occur in the same word. Very often one form is peculiar to this 
feminine, the other to that; as, feminines in ^ are, ^TrT word (Skr. ^Htt), 
t*TT«T shame (Skr. bed (Skr. ^T), alms (Skr. fa^T) 
sleep (Skr. f^nrr), etc., feminines is ^ are, *3^1 chalk (Skr. ^fz^rr), 
