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, also ; and there are noted besides, from roots sometimes showing a nasal, or  (always, with prepositions) or ; ÇB. has.

c. Augmentless forms, as in all other like cases, are met with, with either indicative or subjunctive value: examples (besides the two or three already given) are:. The accent, when present, is always on the root-syllable (SV. is doubtless a false reading).

845. These forms are made in RV. from forty roots, and all the other earlier texts combined add only about twenty to the number; from the later language are quotable thirty or forty more; in the epics they are nearly unknown. When they come from roots of neuter meaning, as, they have (like the so-called passive participle in : 952) a value equivalent to that of other middle forms; in a case or two (RV. vii. 73. 3 [?]; VS. xxviii. 15; TB. ii. 6. 10²) they appear even to be used transitively.

846. a. This aorist is in the later language allowed to be made from a large number of roots (near a hundred). It is made in both voices, but is rare in the middle, most of the roots forming their middle according to the -class (878 ff.) or the -class (898 ff.).

b. Its closest analogy is with the imperfect of the -class (751 ff.); its inflection is the same with that in all particulars; and it takes in general a weak form of root — save the roots in ऋ (three or four only), which have the -strengthening.

c. As example of inflection may be taken the root सिच् pour. Thus: