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 when it denotes the liquor extracted from the Cocoanut, Palmyra, or Date tree, is a regular noun of the 3d. declension ; but when it denotes a stone,ii becomes in the sing, inflex. ^o&3, and in the nom. plu. SoflSo*

measure is used only in composition with other nouns, and in the inflexion becomes <^C3 ; thus, <^c2& compounded with ^ytf a fathom, makes the nominative singular "sP~3C(5&> the measure of a fathom, a fathom's length, and the inflexion singular "23C&3.

Most of the irregular llsf^sScx) nouns, which have the inflexion different from the nominative singular, by changing the final vowel of that inflexion into *% form, in a manner peculiar to themselves, an inflected local or instrumental ablative ; they have also the regular form by the addition of the post-positions er* - T&# &c. thus, inflexion S'o&S the eye, inflected ablative S'ok), regular ablative S'o^-er^. -to^ &c. in or ly, the eye ; and many of these iflected ablatives are used as adverbs or postpositions ; thus from the inflexion ]J3 $ comes |^k> in a plain or outside; from lto>>63, ~5ook> in the beginning, or at, first, from er^sSD, cr^Soo in the inside, or inside.

The student will find it of great advantage to commit to memory the following list of nouns, denoting the several degrees of consanguinity and affinity, peculiar to the people of Telingana.

.. ............ a father ............... astep mother i^i a father's elder brother- his wife ....... ......... ~^Jf also a mother's elder sister. i^ i a father's younger brother his wife ........ ........ i)o5"ef also a mother's young sister. a grand father ........ a grand mother father in law ....... a mother in law a mother's brother ...... his w(fe also a father's sister.