1898.] 
G-. A. Grierson— On the Kdgmirl Noun. 
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Whenever in this declension u-matra is preceded by a or a, the 
a or a become modified to a or a respectively (70). Thus, 
Base ^ pat, a tablet; nom. sg. W pap 1 , but ace. sg. pacye; 
A 
ag. sg. pad (i fully pronounced,—not i-matra) ; nom. pi. xpsf 
pace; ace. pi. xpef*T pacyan ; ag. pi. xHlt pacyau. 
So,—Base 3TF5T may , a mother; nom. sg. maj™ ; but ace. sg. 
maje. 
Again; Base, hath, wood; nom. sg. hath™ ; acc. sg. 
\*\ 
kache. 
(c). Nouns ending in 
Similarly are declined all feminine nouns in ^ h, thus myah, 
mine (fern.). 
Singular. Plural. 
Nom. myah. 
Acc. myahe. 
Ag. myahi. 
myahe. 
JSjTSTiT myahan. 
myahau. 
The vowel is only modified in the nom. sing. So also cyan 
thine (fern.) ; sah, our (fern.) (ii. iii. 11 and ff). 
As the semivowel ^ ya cannot, as a rule, immediately follow ts, 
W tsli, or 5T z. when a noun ends in ^ ts ®, w tsh™, or m z™, the ^ ya is 
•' •' *$s. y 
elided in declension. Thus i ^jj^mats^, mad, (feminine) : nom. pi. flxf 
mats' 1 , not matse. kwatsh *, a small bag : pi. kots a . ©a^sr 
wo^z™, a woman who has married twice, pi. wdr a z (1 . (iv. 51). 
The ya is, however, retained in the singular. Thus the acc. sg. is 
matse, kotshe, and wor a ze. 
