A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.40

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Among adverbs of place, considerable divergences exist, each language having a large stock of words peculiar to itself, in addition to those which are common to the whole group. Sindhi is rich in words of this class, most of which are of somewhat obscure origin. Thus we find a small group with the typical ending in उ, as आडो “opposite,” ओडो “near,” ओडिरो diminutive of the preceding. Peculiar to S. is also वेझो “near,” with its diminutive वेझिरो. सूधो “accompanied by,” O. सुधा, is by Trumpp referred to Skr. सार्धं “with,” and सञ्झों “near,” to संहित, probably correctly. See the remarks on the postposition से in Vol. II. p. 274, and on the Nepali ablative in सित, Vol. II. p. 235. From adverbs with the affixes आहो and आरो are formed certain adjectives which may, in their turn, be again used adverbially as well as adjectively, that is, they may either stand alone uninflected, or may agree with a substantive in gender and number. Thus—