A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.s2.84

v2.c12.s2.84

The group कैसा, etc., comes from Pr. केरिसा, Skr. कीदृश, as has been already stated. P. and S., *more suo*, change स into ह, making केह and shortened किह, to which S. adds the diminutive ending डो. G. केवो appears to arise from the substitution of *v* for *h*, which is characteristic of the Rajput dialects of Hindi, from which G. sprung.¹