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n^SK^l II 
T<T*ft 3$^ ^.cfx: ii 
nn^ 3ft ^t<4 v^k^i ii 
Or 
*nr ^ ^rft ir% ii 
TT^T 3ft ^sfc^T II 3\?T3T II 
fsTTO 1TT% T II 
Here Ti^3T is the bye-form of hut, (Prakrit or TO<gNi) ; 
bye-form of hour, (Pr. 3^H, or 3^^%, Sk. sr^G or ; 
3\?I3T bye-form of 3TT3 crow (Pr. 3\T?!T or 3^3%). It has been already 
remarked in treating of the feminine nouns in ^3T, that the final Prakrit long 
■^T is protected by the inserted semivowel 3. Another instance of this 
fact we observe here in the case of these Ganwari masculine nouns in ^3T, 
where the final 3[T (for the Prakrit %) has evidently been also preserved 
through the insertion of the semivowel 3. We shall have some more 
occasions to observe this effect of the insertion of the semivowels 3 or 3 , and 
to note the fact that an inserted 3 or 3 may protect a final Prakritic long 
vowel, or diphthong, against the operation of the Gaurian law of reduction. 
It does not do so necessarily. Strictly the law is this : when the semivowel 
is inserted before the Prakrit final long vowel or diphthong, two alternative 
Gaurian forms are the result; one in which the final long vowel is preserved, 
and another in which it is reduced according to the ordinary Gaurian laws. 
Thus, if in the Prakrit form3rS3jT the semivowel \is inserted, we get the 
two Low Hindi forms 31^31 or 3T^3. In the form 3r33, according: to a 
further Gaurian Law, the final becomes quiescent, and the result of this 
change is the vocalisation of 3 to which ^ next combines (by sandhi) 
with the preceding 3f to 3iT; hence 3T^3 becomes 3f^T. Now these 
nominal forms in 3jT are in Low Hindi well known and regular alternatives 
of the other forms in ^[3T. They may be formed of any noun whatsoever ; 
e. g. Kin Earn, bye-forms KnnJ or Kni; nK house, bye-forms or 3^T, 
etc. They must not be confounded with the common Braj Bhasha forms 
in 3ft, from which they can easily be distinguished, because the Low Hindi 
bye-forms in 3?T are alioays accented on the ultimate, while the Braj Bhasha 
main-forms in 3fT are never accented on the ultimate, but on the penultimate 
or antepenultimate ; (2), because the Low Hindi forms in always shorten 
a long vowel in the penultimate syllable, while the Braj Bhasha forms never 
do so ; (3), because the Low Hindi form corresponding to the Braj Bhasha 
main-form always ends in 3fT (or ^0 5 e. g., Braj Bhasha main-form 3T^F 
ghorau, Ganwari main-form irPST ghora ; but bye-form i?T^T ghorau. It is 
mark-worthy that the changes of the forms in ^5f3T and 3?T are clearly 
connected with the accent (that is not the Prakrit accent, but the Hindi 
