A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.162

v2.c12.162

This infinitive is also in certain phrases used as a simple noun, as in Hindi लेना देना or लेन देन, literally “taking and giving,” but idiomatically expressing the state of one’s loan account with a banker or money-lender; देना पाउना “to give and to receive,” idiomatically the outstanding assets and liabilities of a mercantile concern. In Sindhi, words of this class sometimes take the form in o, as