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12 factors in the enquiry. But here in IN they are of secondary significance. That is because they exhibit so much uniformity: e.g., the penultimate syllable is the accentuated one in an extraordinarily large percentage of cases. — The influence of accent will be referred to in § 32, II, that of quantity in § 32, I.

14. Eightly, we will bear in mind what Delbriick (“Grund-fragen”, pp. 115, 116) teaches us about the investigation of roots, and accordingly we shall turn our attention not merely to words of action but also to words denoting things and mental states.

15. Finally, let it be observed that only genuine IN words, and never loan-words, can be used for the purposes of the enquiry. Of course when we quote Old Jav. sentences as evidence, loan-words cannot be avoided, for the Old Jav. literature is strongly impregnated wuth Sanskrit words; but such sentences are used on account of their genuinely IN contents, not on account of the loan-words they may happen to include.