A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.s2.77

v2.c12.s2.77

ना is probably in H. a diminutive (§ 24), and with this agrees the S. and the Marwari कितरो, where रो is also a diminutive ending, as is also the लो of G. केटलो, and so perhaps is का of the Marathi. This क is a common addition to the pronouns of this series; thus we often hear in eastern H. कितेक, and in M. कितोक; it is, I think, erroneous to connect this क, as some grammarians do, with एक, supposing एक to be used as *unos, unas*, in Spanish, in the sense of "some." The ण appears to be the sign of the nom. pl., and does not belong to the affix, which latter consists simply of क, a longer form of which is कें, and a longer still करि, from which कै or कइ is made by omitting the र. Both forms occur with the pronoun कैसा in one passage of Chand—