A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c7.54

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§ 75. The most common and most varied exemplification of this kind of nexus is to be found in the word *saptan* “seven,” and its numerous derivatives. The whole of them are given here in full as a good example of the harmony of the whole seven languages, a harmony all the more striking on account of the slight local peculiarities, “not like in like, but like in difference.”