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 addressing the person to whom they refer; in speaking to such relations, the males are called ^dSotf. ejS^cSc - $_ - ^fco, and the females or O c

A native never addresses his wife by name, nor by the term denoting the degree of her affinity to him : but, in speaking to her, makes used of cu o^> and other words, equivalent to our phrases " 1 say, Hear you/' &c. It is considered a great indelicacy, approaching almost to indecency, even to mention the name of one's wife or husband to any person.

Such nouns in the foregoing list, denoting females, as have the nominative singular in ^o, form the singular inflexion by changing that termination to ), and the nom. plu. by changing it to o^ or Oyufc^.

OF NOUNS TERMED &8>>V>3$b:)>ex> the inferior. The o5br>8o<>x> or superior class includes nouns of the masculine gender, and the 5>5SbtiS-e&e>3 or inferior class comprises those of the feminine, arid neuter gender, as defined in rule 14 J.

The Sanscrit derivative is formed from the crude Sanscrit noun, and crude nouns, in the S anscrit language, generally terminate in the vowels v * s 5 ^ e) or m the consonants -S"2Tef~<"(^"?"fr^~So5 IT 

If the crude Sanscrit noun becomes a nominative singular in Teloogoo by affixing the termination C^b, it is declined like the nouns of the first regular ~'S& declension. If, in order to form the nominative singular, it assumes the Teloogoo affix S&x>, jj follows the rules for the second regular ~zS3fC35ba declension; and if it is modified in any other manner,'or is not changed at all, it

The rules respecting Sanscrit derivatives and corruptions apply to adjectives, as well as to substantives, borrowed from that language.