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 terminating in > ^ or ^ although included in the class termed kululoo, when followed by these postpositions, affixes < n thus, ~5"s5ex> rjd& opposite Rama &c. (rule 108)- When these postpositions, however, follow a singular inflexion ending in any other vowel, or plural inflexions which always end in ^>, such inflexions being of the class named vex> kujulov, <:>M is inserted between them and the postpositions in question, which, in consequence, become respectively ci5bob - OCoeao - cOofe>oe - c3o&>k> and o^2$aJfc"7f '; thus, ^S" Od5oo.!56 in rulers ; at the same time, as all plural inflexions end in >, and therefore have inherent the connected vowel ^, which before an initial vowel, may, by the rules before given, have Sund t hi at option, we may also say Sf& ooCSb i* rulers &c. .&c.

1&> o^"Saow and "^^ are never subjoined to any words except verbal nouns, 135 or nounldenoting inanimate things j and 3J~> is used only after abstract nouns.

- So i^x>Cc* - ls;b and $~3 always change into '^fte - *& ^c& - *8?o ]3g and ^J^jwhen used as postpositions.

The n^ure and use of the foregoing words will be more fully explained in 137 the Syntax, where it will be shewn that many of them, though used as postpo- sitions, ap in fact parts of nouns, or forms of verbs. I have no doubt that the whole anderived from the same sources : at the same time, without a further knowledg of the ancient dialect than we now possess, it would be difficult to trace the rigin of some pure Teloogoo derivatives, such as csioo Jf t} ie s |g n j of the geitive, and & or the signs of the dative case. This difficulty has led ' some to Nat these, and similar words, rather as affixes inseparable from sub- stantives,han as a separate class of vocables. But, whatever may be the history oktymology of these words ; whether they are derived from nouns or verbs novt>bsolete, or are themselves original terms, there is no doubt that, in use, theare distinct from all others in the language? and precisely equi- valent to ot English prepositions. This, I think, justifies my classing them as a separa part of speech, and giving them the appellation by which I have endeavours to distinguish them.