Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c11.78

c11.78

Now we see that the old M. poets do not make a distinction between the सीं, which corresponds to our modern स, and that which even now we use in the sense of with. They also use it in other senses in which it is used in H., but not in the M. of the day. The Salsette dialect, however, agrees with the H. in its use of this affix. H. uses से in one case उससे कहा in which we use स as त्यास सांगितलें. Some of these circumstances favour the supposition that the origin of the M. dative affix स is the same as that of H. से and M. सीं. G. poetry has this in the form of सुं or स्यूं as गुजरातिस्यूं मांडिसि कलहु ‘Declare war with Gujarati.’ S. has सें and सीं in the sense of with.