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 the cases, come from : thus,.

b. In the older language occurs the root (accentless), meaning one, many a one; it is oftenest found repeated, as one and another. It follows the ordinary pronominal declension. From it is made the (also accentless) adverb (MS.).

c. Fragments of another demonstrative root or two are met with: thus, he occurs in a formula in AV. and in etc.;  as gen.-loc. dual is found in RV.; the particle points to a root.

504. The characteristic part of the interrogative pronominal root is क् ; it has the three forms क, कि , कु ; but the whole declensional inflection is from क  , excepting the nom.-acc. sing. neut., which is from कि, and has the anomalous form किम् (not elsewhere known in the language from a neuter -stem). The nom. and accus. sing., then, are as follows:

and the rest of the declension is precisely like that of त (above, 495).

a. The Veda has its usual variations, and  for  and. It also has, along with, the pronominally regular neuter ; and (or ) is a frequent particle. The masc. form, corresponding to , occurs as a stereotyped case in the combinations and.

505. The grammarians treat as representative stem of the interrogative pronoun; and it is in fact so used in a not large number of words, of which a few —, and the peculiar  — go back even to the Veda and. In closer analogy with the other pronouns, the form, a couple of times in the Veda , and not infrequently later, is found as first member of compounds. Then, from the real roots are made many derivatives; and from  and, especially the latter, many compounds: thus,