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79] STEMS TN PALATALS AND S 55dhrs-aj hold, san-aj old ; us-ij desiring, bhur-ij f. ann, van-ijm. trader. There is also the n. asrj ' blood.usij m.f. would be declined as follows :Sing. N. usik. A. usij-am. I. usij-a. D. usij-e.G. usij -as.Du.N. usij-a. G.L. usij-os.PI.N. usij-as. A. usij-as. I. usig-bhis. D. usig-bhyas.G. usij-am.4. There are about sixty monosyllabic and compoundstems in s formed from about a dozen roots. Nine monosyllabicstems are f. : das worship, dis direction, drs look,nas nigJit, pas sight, pis ornament, pras dispute, vis settlement,vris finger. Two are m. : is lord and spas spg. All therest are compounds (about twenty of them formed from-drs). Some half-dozen cases of the latter are used asneuter, but no distinctively n. forms (N.A. du. pi.) occur.The s, as it represents an old palatal, normally becomescerebral d before bh, but in dis and drs a guttural.Beforethe su of the L. pi. it phonetically and regularly becomes k.It usually also becomes k in the N. s. (which originallyended in s), as dik, nak ;but cerebral t in spas and vi-spasspij,vis and vi-pas a river.The normal forms, if made from vis settlement, would be :N.V. vit. A. vis-am. I. vis-a. D. vis-6. Ab.G. vis-as.L. vis-i.Du. N.A. vis-a, vis-au.PI. N.A. vis-as. I vid-bhis. D. vid-bhyas. G. vis-am.L. vik-su.a. The N. of some compounds of dra is nasalized, as ki-dfn (forki-dfnk) of what kind?, but ta-dfk suck.The N. s irregularly represents the final palatal (28 a) in purodasm. sacrificial cake N. :purodas, A. purodasam.1This word is of obscure origin, but the j probably represents areduced suffix.