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77] STEMS IN DENTALS 511. Of the stems in t most are radica], nearl)' thirty ofthem being formed with a determinative t added to rootsending in the short vowels i, u, r; e.g. ji-t conquering,srii-t hearing, ki'-t mahing. Nearly all of them, however,appear as the last member of compounds, except cit f. thought ;dyu-t f. brilliance ;nrt f.dancing ;vr-t f. 7^05^. From sarvahu-toffering cornpletehj occurs in N. pi. n. the form sarvahuntiin the AB. There are also a few derivative stemsformed with the suffixes -vat, -tat, -it, -ut, and secondary-t; e.g. pra-vat f. height, deva-tat f. divine service-, sar-itf. stream ;mar-vit m. storm-god ; yakr-t n. liver, sakr-t n.excrement.2. There are only three stems in th : kaprth, n. penis,path m. path, abhi-snath adj. piercing.3. a. About 100 stems end in radical d, all but a fewbeing roots used as the final member of compounds ; e. g.nom. adri-bhid mountain-cleaving. Only eight occur asmonosyllabic substantives : nid f. contempt, bhid f.destroyer,vid f.knowledge, ud f. u-ave, mud f. jog, mrd f.dag, hrd n.heart (used in weak eases only) ;and pad m. foot. Thelatter lengthens its vowel in the strong cases :Sing. N. pat. A. pad-am. I. pad-a. D. pad-6. Ab.G.pad-as. L. pad-i.Du. N.A. pad-a. I. Ab. pad-bhyam. G.L. pad-6s.PL N, pad-as. A. pad-as. I. pad-bhis. D. pad-bhyas.G. pad-am. L. pat-su.h. There are also six stems formed with derivative d(suffixal -ad -ud), seemingly all feminine: drs-adand dhrs-adnether millstone, bhas-ad hind quarters, van-ad longing, sar-adautumn, kak-iid summit, kak-ud palate.4. There are about fifty radical stems in dh, simple orcompound. They are almost restricted to m. and f.,nodistinctively n. forms (N. A. du. pi.) occurring and only fourforms being used as n. in the G. L. s. Seven stems appeare2