A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.86

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While in the other languages the postpositions, when not used as case-signs, are almost invariably joined to the genitive with the masculine oblique case-sign, in Sindhi they may take the ablative or accusative. Thus आडो “in front,” may take the accusative. It is probably like O. आदौ “in the first place,” or with a negative आदौ न “not at all,” “at no time;” thus आदौ सेठि गला नहि literally “to begin with, he did not go there,” that is to say, “he never went there at all,” locative of Skr. आदि “beginning.”