A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.61

v3.c19.61

“But” is very frequently expressed even in Hindi by the Arabic words लेकिन, لیکن, बल्कि, بلکہ, and Persian मगर, مگر; and in the other languages also. Pure Sanskrit are परंतु and किन्तु, as well as बरण (Skr. वरं). In Hindi पर (Skr. परं) is also used, and in P., which also uses अपर, and a strange form ऐपर, in the initial syllable of which we may recognize an incorporation of the near demonstrative pronoun, so that it means “rather than this.” P. has also मगवां, मगों, probably corruptions of مگر. Peculiar to P. and S. are the forms P. हयां, S. हथा, हथो, and emphatic हयांईं and हथोईं “but rather.” These are ablatives from हय, and the idiom may be paralleled by our English phrase “on the other hand.” S. has also पर “but,” and पण, in which latter it agrees with G. It also uses मगरि, having added a final *i* to مگر. G. and M., in addition to पण, use also परंतु, O. किन्त and पर, B. किन्तु and वरं.