A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.65

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"Because."—H. क्यूंकि literally "for why." B. and O. use Skr. कारण "cause," and जे हेतु or जे हेतुक. G. माटे, probably Skr. मात्रिके, which is also sometimes used in O. in the sense of "only," "merely," "for the simple reason that." G. has also केमके "for why," and shorter कांके. S. जेलां, जेल्हं, where the last syllable is for लाइं "for" (see Vol. II. p. 260). S. also uses a string of forms with छा "why?" as छाजो, छा लाइ, and छो ता, छो जो. The correlatives "therefore," etc., take the त form तेला "etc."