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174] INTENSIVES 203Irregularities.1/4. The radical vowel is shortened in roots with medial a : kaiSshine: ea-kas ;badh oppress: ba-badh ;vaa belloiv : va-vas. In a fewroots containing r or r the radical syllable varies ;thus gr swallow :jar-gur and jal-gul ;car move : car-cur beside car-car; tr cross: tarturbeside tar-tar.rt. The root r go reduplicates with al : al-ar (dissimilation) ; gahijlunge, with a nasal: jan-gah;^ badh oppress, with its final mute:^bad-badh (beside ba-badh) ;bhr ^ hear and bhur quiver, with a palatal:jar-bhr, jar-bhur ;bhur and gur (jreef reduplicate u with a :jar-bhur,jar-gur.h. Roots with initial guttural, if interposing i before the root,reduplicate with the same guttural ;thus krand cry out : kan-i-krand. ;gam go : gan-i-gam ;han (for ghan) slay:ghan-i-ghan ;kr iiiakc hasboth kar-i-kr* and car-i-kr;* skand te'p has both kan-i-skand andcan-i-skad.A. The forms of the primary type that occur, if madefrom uij tvash, would be the following :1. Pres. ind. act. sing. 1. n6nej-mi, n6nej-i-mi. 2. n6-nek-si. 3. n6nek-ti, n6nej-i-ti. Du. 2. nenik-thas.° 3. nenik-tas.PI. 1. nenij-mas, nenij-masi. 3. n6nij-ati.Mid. sing. 1. nenij-6. 3. nenik-t6. Du. 3. n6nij-ate,PI. 3. nenij-ate.2. Subj. act. sing, 1, nenij-ani.- 2. nenij-a-s. 3. n^nija-t.Du. 1. n6nij-a-va. PI. 1. nenij-a-ma. 3. n6nij-a-n.Mid. du. 3. nenij-aite. PI. 3. n6nij-a-nta.^In B. also jaii-jap-y^-te (jap mutter). Here also vah carry reduplicateswith n (together with interposed i) though there is notrace of a nasal in the root :van-i-vah-yate.This is the only example of such reduplication.^3This root shows the same peculiarity in the perfect (139, 4).*The intensive of this root occurs only in the 2iarticiple karikr-dtand carikr-^t."The only form occurring in this person has the interposedi andstrong radical syllable : tar-tar-i-thas."The only form actiially occuriing in this person is janghto-ani(accented like the subj. of the reduplicating present).