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gam169-171] DESIDERATIVES 199one to i :ga go: ji-gi-sa (SV.) ; pa drink: pi-pi-sa (besidepi-pa-sa) ;ha go forth:ji-hi-sa ;dha 2)ut: di-dhi-sa (besidedhit-sa).Special Rule of Reduplication.170. The characteristic reduplicative vowel is i,whichappears in all stems except those formed from roots containingu (which reduplicate with u) ;e. g. jya overpoiver :ji-jya-sa; mis mix: mi-mik-sa; pri?ovc: pi-pri-sa; vrt turn:vi-vrt-sa ;but guh hide :j\i-guk-sa ;bhu he : bu-bhu-sa.Irregularities.171. 1. Five roots with medial a followed by m or n lengthen thevowel :go ji-gam-sa ban smite : :; ji'-gham-sa (66 A 2) ;manthink lengthens the reduplicative vowel also: mi-mam-sa (66 A 2) ;van 7vin and san gain drop the nasal : vi-va-sa and si-sa-sa,2. dhvr injure, after interchange of semivowel and vowel to ur,lengthens its u : dii-dhiir-sa. Cp. p. 193, note 4,3. Haifa dozen roots cont„iniiig a or a shorten the radical syllableby a kind of syncopation : da give and dha imt lose their vowel :di'-t-sa (= di-d[a]-sa) beside di-da-sa ;dhf-t-sa (= di-dh[a]-sa)beside di-dhi-sa ;dabh harm, labh take, sak 6e able, sah prevail losetheir initial radical consonant and their vowel : di-p-sa ^ = ( di[da]bhsa),lip-sa^ (= li[la]bh-sa), sik-sa (= si[sa]k-sa), sik-sa, withlengthened reduplicative vowel (= si[sa]k-sa).^rt. ap obtain and rdh thrive (treated as ardh) contract the reduplicatedi with the radical initial to i: ip-sa (=i-ap-sa) and irt-sa( = i-ardh-sa).4. In ci nrjte, cit perceive, ji conquer, han slay, the radical initialreverts to the original guttural:ci-ki-sa, ci-kit-sa, ji'-gi-sa, jfgham-sa.*Also dhipsa in B.'-Also lipsa in B.^In B. are similarly formed dhiksa (dah burn), pitsa ^pad go),ripsa (rabh grasp).