A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.23

v3.c19.23

O. having first made sthâna into ठा, proceeds with the declension through its own affixes, and has thus a modern locative ठारे, in एठारे, सेठारे. The final रे is often dropped, and एठा, सेठा, or even shortened एठ, सेठ are used. B. uses खाने, which seems to come from स्थाने on the analogy of खंभो = स्तंभ (Var. iii. 14) and खाणु = स्थानु (ib. iii. 15). For “where,” however, it has a more regular form कोथा, in older Bengali कोथाय, as तार मत सन्यासिनी पाइब कोथाय “Where shall I find a female saint like her?” (Bharat, Bidyá-S. 399), where the final य for ए is a relic of the e of sthâne. We also find हेया and हेथाय “here,” etc.