A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic Languages Volume 3

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...the plural of the preterite, as we could derive e.g. anqfilh, delivery (neut.) from the same, because it exhibits the vowel of the present instead of that of the root itself (Jalh). Neither, too, can we derive drus, fall, for drusa-s or drusi-s (the nominative sign is dropped in bases in ta and si), from the plural of the preterite; but, like the latter, it contains the pure radical vowel, which, in the present driusa, isGuniscd by i (see . 27.), and, in the singular preterite draw, by a. That the class of words under discussion is not wanting in Zend also is proved by the Gothic diphthong in thlauh-s, can G. Ed. p. 1238. hardly be a consequence of Guna, but must rather result from the h following. That steps, sleep, belongs to this class, and is therefore for stepa-s, not for stepi-s, may be deduced from the cognate dialects. 862. To return to the Sanscrit infinitive suffix tu, it is further to be remarked, that the forms which are contracted by means of it occur in the Vedas also in the ablative and genitive, which two cases are not formally distinguished from one another. Their use, however, is rare, and the ablative appears in the examples mentioned, and in the Schol. to Pan., III. 4. is., quite in the character of a common abstract substantive; and we might e.g. regard the Latin orlus, everywhere that it occurs, as an infinitive, equally as well as the ablative ud-&ds, go-G. Ed. p. 1239. verned 1. c. bypurd, ere, earlier, before (purd suryasyd 'ditSti (-ya ud), before the rising of the sun). In the other examples, too, given 1. c, the ablative of the abstract in tu is governed by a preposition, and, indeed, either by purd, before, or by d, toso...