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 OF SUBSTANTIVES. 73

The consonants 5 ^J~ fx ^ or So, when connected wilh other consonants without the intervention of a vowel, are generally dropped, and the consonant with which they may be connected is sometimes doubled ; thus,

o$ otf:ro3 ...... a journey .............. . .......... makes . ...a mark ......................... do f & ............. .a cow-house ........................ do ej ....... ........ fire ................................. do ....... ...... .......... a piece of money ..... . ............ do ......... '*

Some of the changes among the ^^ &x> nouns are so little obvious, that the reader may occasionally be inclined to doubt the existence of any connexion between the adulterated word and that stated to be it's original. Great deference, however, is due by a foreigner to the concurrent testimoney of native authors. on this head ; and when it is considered that most of the &S5s$3o words have, in all probability, passed into Teioogoo, through the medium of the Pracrit, or other corrupt dialects of the Sanscrit, and have been naturalized in it for ages, the little resemblance now to be found between some of the original words, and their corruptions, ought not, alone, to invalidate the established etyTnologies of successive Grammarians.

OF NOUNS TERMED W^g 65^'S^O OR FOREIGN.

In treating of the declension of the ^^iSSfCSSco - &^bs&o an d <> 55"s$x> nouns, the peculiarities of the (^v^sC35bo O r common dialect, have been duly pointed out. It remains, therefore, only to offer a few observations respecting foreign nouns.

The great facility with which the Teioogoo adopts arid naturalizes foreign terms, must already have attracted the notice of the Student. The intercourse of the people of Telingana with the neighbouring provinces, has led to the introduction of a few terms from the Orissa, the Mahratta, the Guzerat, the Canarese or Carnataca, and the Dravida or Tamil : but, except from the Tamil and Canarese, with which the Teioogoo is radically connected, it has not bor- rowed extensively from any of these languagps. Since the Mahomnicdan con-