A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.86

v3.c18.86

A curious proof of the antiquity of these complicated forms with suffixes is afforded by the fact, that in connection with them the 3 sing. aorist of √अस् appears still in its old Pr. form of अथ (अत्य), § 59. This form exists only in combination with the pronominal suffixes, whereas the ordinary form आहे is used both with and without suffixes. Thus they say आहेमि and अथमि “there is to me,” as in the line—