The Anti-Jargonist, or a Short Introduction to the Hindoostanee Language, Being Partly an Abridgment of the Oriental Linguist, by the Author of the Hindoostanee Dictionary (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 Excerpt: ...near the men, murdoo kee khatir, (rarely mcrdon khatir, ) for the fake of men. The Gender of Nouns is regulated by their fex or termination. Males are neceifarily mafculine, as females are feminine, whatever their final letters may be. A, u, are commonly mafculine terminations, as, t, ih, are for the molt: part feminine. There is no neuter gender in the Hindooftanee, and the nouns are often fo capriciouily claifed tinder the other two, that the fcholar will do well to confider every word as mafculine, until he has internal or external evidence to the contrary. The variation of fex fometimes is denoted by irrelative words, as bap, a father;, mother, and in ambiguous or trivial cafes by adding nur, he; madu, ihe, as in Englim. A few fuch expreflions as admee, ufamee, &c. have a common gender, being mafculine, or feminine occafionally. Mafculines in a, u,, oo, or any cmfonant, in the feminine are changed to--or require the addition of--, in, un, nee, anee, en, aten, eep, u, or a, thus, urka, a boy, ', a girl; dool(he, a bridegroom, dool, hwn (or-/-) a bride; d, hobii a wafherman, d, hobin, a washerwoman 5 iher, a tigejy fbemee, atigrefs; &c, &c. v. Gram. p. 50. No Hindooftanee Nouns, the raafculines in a, u, of claft 2d. excepted, have properly fpeaking, any inflected, cafes in the Jingular, as the poftpofitions ka, ke, kee, ko, &c exclufive ot the foregoing exceptions, produce in fact nc change or inflection whatever in this number: andas thefe nouns are by far the rhoft numerous, I fhall exhibit them as belonging to the firft declenfion, or to fpeak more generally to--CLASS I. SINGULAR. PtURAL. Nom. murd; a man, or the fflurd j...