1898.] 
G. A. Grierson — On the Kagmirl Noun. 
65 
This group of irregular nouns consists of most feminine nouns 
in t, Sf th, ^ d, «r n. ^ h, and certain nouns in l. In all these 
cases the final consonant is changed as follows :— 
<T t becomes ^ ts 
X «N 
V th 
% d 
•T n 
^ h 
*r l 
e.g., Tr<T rat, night; 
Jcoth, a hank ; 
grand , a counting ; 
yiran , an anvil; 
^fT^f kah , eleventh lunar day ; 
«TT^T wdl, a hole ; 
W Uh 
• s 
z 
h 
* ^ 
sr p 
N 
*U' 
Norn. pi. rats * (23, 14, 16). 
* 
1TW kwateh* (23,14,16). 
<T3T grg,nz u (23, 14, J6). 
t^ mm* (23, 14, 16). 
s&m kci(f (19, 14, 16). 
<FP5T waj* (27, 14, 16). 
Other examples are sat, hope ; ^T*T hdn, loss ; ^T^T*r tsaman, 
cheese. 
The words in l which follow this declension are ivcil, a 
hole (as that of a serpent) ; XJT^r sal , a wife’s sister; zal , a net; 
' kal, thought, consideration ; and hal, a house, a hall (27, 
28). The word hdl when it is at the end of a masculine compound 
is, however, declined regularly; thus tsdtahalas andar 
(not tsdtahaj u andar,) in the school-house, because 
featahal is masculine (28). The words kundal , a kind of cup 
(especially the cup of a portable stove), and hartal a sword, may 
optionally be regular. Thus grsrsr kundaj * sUtin or ffrsfw 
kundali sUtin , by the cup, (29). 
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