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 d. root lick: strong stem, ; weak,. For rules of combination of the final, see 222 b.

613. Examples of the 3d sing. mid. coincident in form with the 1st sing. are not rare in the older language (both V. and B.): the most frequent examples are ; more sporadic are. To of the 2d pl. is added  in  The irregular accent of the 3d pl. mid. is found in RV. in. Examples of the same person in and  also occur: thus (besides those mentioned below, 629–30, 635),, and, with auxiliary vowel,  (unless these are to be ranked, rather, as perfect forms without reduplication: 790 b).

614. Subjunctive forms of this class are not uncommon in the older language, and nearly all those which the formation anywhere admits are quotable, from Veda or from Brāhmaṇa. A complete paradigm, accordingly, is given below, with the few forms not actually quotable for this class enclosed in brackets. We may take as models (as above), for the active the root go, and for the middle the root  sit, from both of which numerous forms are met with (although neither for these nor for any others can the whole series be found in actual use).

a. The mode-stems are and  respectively.

615. The RV. has no middle forms in except those of the first person. The 1st. sing. act. in occurs only in RV., in. The 2d and 3d sing. act. with primary endings are very unusual in the Brāhmaṇas. Forms irregularly made with long, like those from present-stems in , are not rare in AV. and B.: thus,. Of middle forms with secondary endings are found, 3d pl., and , 3d sing. (after prohibitive), which is an isolated example. The only dual person in is.