A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.173

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Hindi has words of this class, as संयनी “betrothal,” भरनी “woof,” लदनी “lading,” but more frequently as consonantly terminated masculines, as भरण पोषण “feeding and protecting,” “maintenance.” Marathi is perhaps the richest of all the languages in words of this formation. It is, however, as will be seen from the following examples, very capricious in its use of such words, sometimes using a masc. in णे, at others fem. in णी or ण, or neut. in ण or णे.