A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.40

v3.c18.40

The *Na* type occurs in Hindi, as also in P. S. M. It has two forms in H., one archaic and poetical ending in *ana*, the other modern and classical in *nâ*. The first of these two forms I would derive from the Sanskrit verbal noun in *anam*, as *karaṇ* “doing,” *patan* “falling.” It is in frequent use, uninflected, throughout the poets, thus—