Notes on the Declension of Feminine Nouns in Middle Indo-Aryan

L. A. Schwarzschild

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Notes on the Declension of Feminine Nouns in Middle Indo-Aryan

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L. A. Schwarzschild

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“The tendencies of Apabhraṃśa in phonetics and grammar help to bridge the gap between typical Prakrit and the modern languages.” A. Woolner expressed this view in 1928 when comparatively few Apabhraṃśa texts had been published and the remarkable continuity of the Indo-Aryan languages was accepted as a fact. Since then their general pattern of development, which appeared with simple clarity to Woolner, has often been obscured by the wealth of linguistic material of the Middle Indo-Aryan period that has come to light.

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Information: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 88 , Issue 3-4 , October 1956 , pp. 181 - 190

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00115035 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 187 note 1} The endings -hi, -hiṃ, are not usual in the masculine locative until late in the Apabhraṃśa period and they are based on the analogy of the pronominal declension.

^{page 189 note 1} There are also some obscure cases of influence of the adverbs on declension as, for instance, Apabhraṃśa tuddha, tuddhra, which is mentioned as the genitive singular of the 2nd person pronoun by Hemacandra and occurs in the Bhavisayattakahā and the Paumasiricariu of Dhâhila, two texts that are very much akin in language. Tudhra may be based on the usual Apabhramsa genitive tuha under the influence of tatra, etc. (cf. tadru, yadru, found in the grammarians (Kî., 5, 50) and the curious demonstratives traṃ and druṃ, and the relative dhruṃ quoted by Hemacandra, iv, 360).

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