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[No. 1, 
T. G. Bailey —Notes on the SUsi Dialect. 
p 
changed to 
ib 
nuchna = puchna, ask; naisa = paisa. 
pll 
n 
nh, 
nhitta = phitta (abuse). • 
bh 
j t 
nh, 
nlii •= bhl = phir, then, &c. 
bh 
a 
ch, 
Cliattu = Bhattu = a Sasl; chatani = bhatani 
bh 
ii 
jib 
jhukha = bhukha, hungry. 
b 
ii 
c, 
catana = batana, shew. 
ch 
ii 
nh, 
nliodna = chodna = cliorna, leave. 
n 
ii 
kh, 
khigalna=nigalna = nikalna, emerge. 
d 
ii 
kh, 
khas = das, ten. 
1 
ii 
k, 
kohna = lohna, marna, cf. Kashmiri layun. 
Changes formed by additions of letters, sometimes with vowel 
change. 
b prefixed to vowels, bek=*ek, bun = un, bea = ea, bethl = ethi. 
k „ ,, kodmi = admi, man ; kdth = ath, eight; kodha = 
adha, half ; kundar = andar. 
kli prefixed to consonants, kharaju = rajl=raz!, satisfied; khaditha = 
ditlia = Panj. diththa, Urdu dekha, seen, 
dha ,, ,, dha ban = ban ==bahin (Urdu) sister; dha- 
gal = gala, neck. 
Verbs whose roots end in a vowel have sometimes p inserted after 
the root:— 
depna = dena, give ; lepna = lena, take ; liopna = liona, be. 
Verbs whose roots end in ah, change ah to aug. 
Kaugna, = kahna, say ; raugna = rahna, remain; ana, come, and jana, 
go, become asarna and jasarna, respectively. 
jana has two criminal past participles, one regular jasarna, one 
gauga, formed from gay a on the analogy of kaugna, raugna, &c. 
g is added in mharga = mhara = hamara, our; tuarga== tuara = your ; 
merga = mera, my; terga = tera, thy; kihrga = kihra, who? jihfga = 
jihra, who, cf. Pune dialect sara, our; suara, your; mhara, my; tuara, 
thy. 
I have noticed occasionally peculiar double changes. 
khadepaqra = depagra = deqra = detlga, I shall give; khajihrga = 
jihrga = jihra, who. 
Special words :—It is almost impossible to distinguish between 
criminal and ordinary special words. 
bora, boy 
bori, girl 
bhauta, brother 
ban, sister 
bhatani, woman 
kajja . 
khet j ’ J a * 
goliya -j 
nokli j ’ cul, r“ 
baut, thief 
barml, wife 
kini, khatri 
cawal, rascal 
bhukal^ 
kuti j > d °K 
