Some nouns
have been noted which do not inflect for number and case forms and thus do
not fall in any of the above mentioned groups. Such nouns belong to the
mass nouns and are masculine in gender. A few examples are :
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pò
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‘chaff’
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kà
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‘grass’
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p rse
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‘sweat’
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dUd
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‘milk’
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pa i
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‘water’
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Besides the above mentioned inflexion in which the postpositions occur
after the oblique forms of the nouns to denote various case functions
(cf.pp.110), there are two suffixes {-ũ}
and {-€}
used for ablative and locative respectively. These suffixes do occur after
certain postpositions as well as adverbs to denote the same functions.
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Examples are :
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| Ablative {-ũ}
with Noun Stems
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wo
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k rũ
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ayo
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‘He
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came
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from
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home’
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1
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2-3 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
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màro
|
gero
|
skulũ
|
ayo
|
‘My
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son
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has
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come
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from
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the
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school’
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2 |
3-4 |
5-6 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
5 |
4 |
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3 |
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hũ
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p ke |
smo ũ |
mU ũgo |
‘I
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shall
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return
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tomorrow
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from
|
Samote’
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(place
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name)
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1
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2
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3-4
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5
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1 |
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5 |
2 |
4 |
3 |
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Ablative {ũ}
with Postposition
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pxũ
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mera
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sIr
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‘The
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bird’
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flew
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above
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my
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head
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1
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2 |
3 |
4-5 |
6 |
7 |
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1 |
6-7 |
4-5 |
2 |
3 |
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wrũ
U
geyo
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m
|
ya
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ktab
|
Us
|
koũ
ũ
|
a¸i
|
‘I
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took
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this
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book
|
from
|
him’
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| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5-6 |
7 |
1 |
7 |
2 |
3 |
5-6 |
4 |
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Ablative {ũ }
with Adverbs
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tũ
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ndrũ
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kyũ
|
ayo
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‘Why
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did
|
you
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come
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from
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inside’
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1
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2-3 |
4 |
5 |
4 |
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1 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
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Locative {-€}
with Noun Stems
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wo
|
mdrs€
|
geyo
|
‘He
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went
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to
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the
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school’
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1
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2-3 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
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2 |
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wo
|
drya
|
g€
|
dnd€
|
b€ţho
|
E€
|
‘He
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is
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sitting
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at
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the
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bank
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of
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the
|
river’
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1
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2 |
3 |
4- |
6 |
7 |
1 |
7 |
6 |
5 |
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4 |
3 |
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2 |
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| Locative {-€}
with Postposition
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tũ
|
mera
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ko€
|
b€s
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‘You
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sit
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near
|
me’
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1
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2
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3-4 |
5 |
1 |
5 |
3-4 |
2 |
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wa
|
apa
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dost
|
ko€
|
gi
|
thi
|
‘She
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had
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gone
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to
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her
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friend’
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1
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2
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3 |
4-5 |
6 |
7 |
1 |
7 |
6 |
4-5 |
2 |
3 |
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Infinitive stems formed by {-- }
are inflected for direct and oblique forms. Direct forms mark the distinction of
both the genders-masculine and feminine and numbers-singular and plural
and in oblique, infinitive stems take {f}.
Like nouns oblique infinitive can also take the postpositions.
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