A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.153

v2.c12.153

Far more widely used, and in every sense more important, is the neuter form. Two classes must be here distinguished: the first, simple appellatives, or names of objects or actions; the second, abstract nouns which have the meaning of the performance of an action, or the being in a state. The latter are in fact the infinitives of verbs.