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geri-ã ®   gerIyã   ‘girls(obl.pl.)

pi- ®  

piy  

‘(may) drink’(II & IIIp. sg.)

tò- ®  

tòw

‘(may) wash’(II & IIIp.sg.)

p- ®  

pw

‘(may) fall’(II & IIIp. sg.)

p- ®  

pw ‘(may) fall’(II & IIIp.pl.)

lá- ®  

láw  

‘(may) put off’ (II & III p.sg.)


(iv) ® n/,,-

 

Any root endig in retroflex nasal, lateral and flap when followed by a suffix beginning with {-} then this following {-} changes to {-n}.
 

Examples are :
 

khU--o ®  

khUno 

‘to dig’

p--o ®  

pno

‘to read’

ga--o ®  

gano 

‘to cook’

sa--o ®  

sano 

‘to burn’ etc.


CHAPTER III


Morphology

In this section the formation of words is dealt with. The words are of two types-inflected and uniflected. Inflected words will always be polymorphemic and the words which are further indivisible into morphemes are monomorphemic. In this langauge connectives, emphatic particles, sentence negatives and most of the postpositions are indeclinables. Inflected words will have stems and inflectional endings. Further a stem can be a root stem, a root followed by a stem formative and a compound stem having two or more roots.
 

In this part on the basis of form and function different word classes nominals, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and particles etc., are set up and described.
 

3.1.

 Nominals


Morphologically nominals are those word forms which take case markers and syntactically these forms constitute nominal phrases which occur as subject and

 

 
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