JOURNAL
OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.
Part I.—HISTORY, LITERATURE, 8w.
NO. I. —1896.
On Irregular Causal Vc'rbs in the Dido-Aryan VernaculaMr-By
G. A. GRIEBSON, C.I.E., PHD. _ [Read March, 1896].
In the Modern Vernaculars of Western and Central India, certain causal verlus insert a. (J, an 7, an 1, or an n, before or after the causal suffix. As an example I may quote the Hindi causal verb dill-find, ’to cause to give,’ derived from danfi, ‘ to give.’
The following is a brief summary of the distribution of these, so-called, irregular forms.
NORTH-WESTERN FAMILY.
Sindhi. Tn verbs ending in 1', u or ih, and certain others, e.g., J Sikh ‘ to learn,’ 7- is inserted after the causal Ii. E.g., ‘/ (1111', ‘ give,’ causal, \/ ddiE-r; J sikh, ‘ learn,’ causal J siklui-r. If a root ends in Fl, 1- is inserted before the causal d.
Ka‘pmifl. Many verbs insert an before the causal (7v; e.g. ‘/ puk- an-fiv from ‘/ pak, ‘go.’ Mounsyllahic roots in k, m, l and y, insertr before the causal (79.7, tllus Jbal-r-tiv, ‘ heal,’ from 1/bal, ‘ be bouvalcsccnt.’
Western Pafijfibi. Several verbs insert an 1 before the causal :71: e.g., M sikh-Z—I‘w, ‘teaclu,’ ~/ pi-l-mv, ‘canse to drink,’ from J 19?, ‘ drink.’ Sometimes the Z is inserted in the middle of the root as an infix,e.gi, from J samh ‘sleep,’ cans. J sumldh, from 1/ bah, ‘sit,’ cans. 1/ bulhfiv.
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