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A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.166

A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.166

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v2.c12.166

In these cases the इ inserted before the termination is inorganic, and merely due to the preference of Sindhi for that sound (Vol. I. § 32). In Hindi and the other languages, nouns of this kind are more generally feminine, and so in Sindhi; in Marathi and Panjabi also the fem. form is more usual. Thus