A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.64

v3.c19.64

"Although."—Skr. यद्यपि is used in B. O., also in H., but more common is जो भी "if even." P. has भािवं, literally "one may think," or "it may seem." B. also uses जदि ओ "if even." S. तोडे, तोणे, sometimes with जे prefixed, जे तोडे; this, too, is literally "if even," for तोडे alone is used to mean "either," "even," and is apparently really the correlative तो (तउ = तदि) with a diminutive affix. It is not found in the other languages. G. जो पण "but if." In all cases there is a correlative; thus to H. जो or जो भी answers तो or तो भी "then," or "even then;" to P. भािवं answers तां भी; to G. जो पण, answers तो पण, and so in all. In B. and O., as in written H., the correlative is Skr. तथापि "yet."