A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.97

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Hindi stems end only in long vowels—*â*, *î*, *û*, *e*, *o*. Some grammarians call those stems which end in a long vowel *open* roots, and those which end in a consonant *close* roots. This terminology has nothing to recommend it, and there is no advantage in retaining it. The tenses whose terminations begin with vowels are the aorist, future, imperative, and past participle.