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4 of the verb to strike with the fist; thus also,  naᶁu, with the affix  ca,  Naᶁaca, signifies, as a noun, a step, progress, conduct, manner, and is the root of the verb  naᶁavaᶁamu to walk. In this use of the roots, all the dialects differ; the root that is used as a noun only in Tamil and Telugu may serve as the theme of a verb in Cannaᶁi, and vice versâ: thus in Tamil the term accarei is used as a north in such impersonals sentences as  yenác’ accar̄eiyillei, it is not a want to me—I do not require it; in Cannaᶁi  accar̄iy is the root of the verb  accar̄iyudu to be desired—to be endeared to. It frequently happens, also, that a term occurs which cannot be referred to any root of the tongue to which it belongs, though it is readily traced to a radical in one of the cognate dialects; thus in the compound agupaᶁaᶁamu, (which signifies in Telugu to take in the sense in which it is used in such sentences as  adi ᶁhúmamugà nácu agapaᶁindi, I take it to be smoke;  dánikin artꞕamu nác’ agapaᶁa lédu, I do not take, or comprehend, the sense of it, but in Tamil to take in general, seize, obtain, (as  curivi yenác’ agapattadu, I have caught the bird) the first member  aga or  agu has no separate meaning in Telugu, in Tamil  agam signifies the interior and, in both languages, the root  padu to suffer.

To shew that no radical connexion exists between the Sanscrit and Telugu, ten roots in alphabetic order, under the letters A, C, P, and V, have been taken from the common ᶁhtáu-málà or list of roots, and with them have been compared ten Telugu roots, under the same letters taken from a Telugu ᶁhtáu-málà compiled by Patábꞕi-ráma Şástri, the Head Sanscrit and Telugu Master at the College; these will be found in the following lists, the mere inspection of which will shew, that, among the forty Telugu roots, not one agrees with any Sanscrit root. To facilitate a comparison of the several languages treated on, each of which has a distinct alphabet, the Roman character is used throughout: