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 70 TELOOOOO GRAMMAR.

When ihe noun ^cSfcfT signifies a bird it makes SScS&tty, but when it signifies the total period of life, or youth, or age, &c it makes either, S$<3&&> or tf cOo&y - e;S)tf " a nymph, makes ^>%)S3, or ^jtfioo) ; ~^#S~, the Creator, Brumha, makes ^#.

OF NOUNS TERMED $>S^5$X>eW QR CORRUPTIONS OF THE SANSCRIT. 227 Besides the regular Sanscrit derivatives, there is in Teloogoo a class of worda named &&&x>?x> t or corruptions of the Sanscrit. These are formed from the crude Sanscrit noun by the substitution of one letter for another; by the elision, the insertion, or addition of letters ; by subverting the order of the letters, or by doubling some of them. After these changes in the original letters of the crude Sanscrit noun, some of the Sanscrit corruptions affix Teloogoo terminations, in the same manner as the Sanscrit derivatives, and others take no affixes. In either case, the rules already given for the declension of the ~ C3$ nouns apply equally to the >sS. It will, therefore, be sufficient to submit a few explanations respecting the manner in which the nominative singular is formed from the crude Sanscrit noun ; at the same time, these, from the nature of the subject, must be necessarily very undeterminate.

OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE VOWELS IN CRUDE, SANSCRIT NOUNS.

228 If the first syllable, in the original crude noun terminate in the vowels 9 or N>, these vowels are often, in Teloogoo, changed to "*' or cv *. thus ; &T a quarter of the world, makes ~3S . JDS' 600 a pungent taste, makes "SX^oo. &> SStf an astringent taste, makes &*$.

229 If the first syllable in the original crude noun end with "S or these letters are respectively changed to ~" and

SCfS? ............... sorrow ............... makes $> ............. -...pain ...... ............ do ................. ~ expenditure ..... . ...do ................. liberality ............. do ................ .justice, propriety... .do ......... *... . . ........... do ...............