[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872) › v3.c19.25 # A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.25 A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.25 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c19.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.25) In classical H. the adverbial element is धर, as इधर “hither,” उधर “thither.” The dialectic forms are very various. Bhojpuri has एम्हर, उम्हर, as also एने, उने, etc.; in eastern Behar one hears एम्हर, हेम्हर, and many others. Kellogg quotes also a curious form from Rîwâ एहै कैत, एहै कयोत, or एहै मुंह. If we take the original of all these forms to be धर, that is a word of many meanings both in Skr. and H.; but I am disposed to connect the series with M. म्होर “face,” G. मोहडुं id., a diminutive from Skr. मुख, so that the older adverbial element would be म्हर्, as in Bhojpuri, whence न्ह, which would, by a natural process, glide into न्हर and धर. For the Rîwâ form I can suggest no origin. - [Previous: v3.c19.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.24) - [Next: v3.c19.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.26) - [Up: v3.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.beames-1872.v3.c19.25) · Pramāṇa