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G. A. Grierson — On the Kdgmln Noun. 
[No. 1, 
the penultimate U to a in all cases except the nominative, and are then 
decliued like nouns of the first declension ending in consonants (74.) 
: r • _ \ 1 
kotshul u , a porter. 
O 'i 
WrT^T tsdtul u , a sodomite. 
v -» V> 
tsakul u , circular. 
i 
gogul “, globular. 
3TT?pf watul 11 , a low-caste man. 
hatuk w , a drake. 
JIJTW gagur u , a rat. 
jcjff mongur u , a kid. 
fTfpr kokur u , a cock (iv. 1). 
•j . „ . r 
kotur u , a pigeon (iv. 1). ... 
So also words in w r u signifying professions, &c. (iv. 6, 99 and ff.), 
e.g., sonur M , a goldsmith, manur u , a shell worker. 
See secondary suffixes No. 39. 
Thus,— 
Nom. sg. kotskul u ; acc. sg. kotshalas; gen. sg. 
| *1 
Jcotshal* sand u ; ag. sg. 3iW^r«T kotshalan; instr. sg. 
kbtshal a sutin ; nom. pi. kobshal; acc. pi. efjW^T«r kotshalan ; ag.pl. 
liW ft kbtshalau. 
If a word ending in u-mdtrd has yu or i in the penultimate of the 
nom. sg., it has i in the penultimate in all the other cases (ii. i. 76). 
[These words are spelt indifferently with yu or i in the nominative, but 
are always pronounced as if yu was written. Thus mahanyuv'*, 
or mahaniv M , a man, both pronounced mahanyuv; zyuth w , or 
o -O 
f3T3 zith u , old, but both pronounced zyuth. On the other hand, in other 
cases, except the nominative, we have only i , pronounced as i] : thus ; 
sqar zyuth™, old ; acc. sg. f^rf^ zithis; ag. sg. f^jfk zith 1 ; nom.. pi. 
forfe zith 1 ; acc. pi. f^C^zithyan; ag. pi. zithyau. 
