A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.135

v2.c12.135

I cannot find many undoubted examples of this class, and even those that do occur do not run through the whole seven languages, which seem as a general habit to be more faithful to the barytone accent, especially in substantives, than they are to the oxytone, or, if we accept the क theory, to be derived from words which did not take the क termination, more frequently than from those which did.