A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.47

v3.c17.47

The fifth, eighth, and ninth classes are very similar even in Sanskrit, for while the fifth adds नु to its root, the eighth adds उ; but as all its roots except one already end in न्, it comes practically to pretty much the same thing as the fifth. The ninth adds न्, ना, and नी to the root before various terminations. Here Pali draws very slight distinctions, making verbs of the fifth class take नु and ना indifferently, and both fifth and ninth appear occasionally in the guise of the first. Thus—