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seventh class of verbs — see nasal class.

sh-sounds ( and ç), 61, 63.

short and long quantity, 76–9.

sibilants (ç, ṣ, s), pronunciation etc., 60–4: — and see the different letters.

sibilant or sigmatic aorist, 824, 874–920: formation and classification, 874–7; 4. s-aorist, 878–97; 5. iṣ-aorist, 898–910; 6. siṣ-aorist, 911–5; 7. sa-aorist, 916–20; its stem in derivation, 1140 c.

simple aorist, 824, 828–55: 1. root-aorist, 829–41; passive aor. 3d sing., 842–5; 2. a-aorist, 846–55.

siṣ-aorist, 824, 911–5: formation of stem, and inflection, 911; forms in older language, 912, 913; modes, 914; middle forms, 915.

sixth class of verbs — see á-class.

sonant and surd sounds, 34, 35; Hindu definition of their difference, 34 b; mutes, 34, 35; aspirates, 37, 38; question as to character of h, 65 a; of final mute, 141 b; euphonic assimilation of the two classes, 117, 156–78.

special and general tenses, 599 a.

spirants, 59 ff.: sibilants, 59–64; aspiration, 65; other breathings, 67–9.

stems, inflectible, 98–100, 106; their derivation — see derivation.

strengthening and weakening processes, 234–60.

strong and weak, or strong, middle, and weakest, forms of stems in declension, 311; of roots and stems in general, 104–6; confusions of strong and weak forms in decl., 462 c; in conj., 556 a; strong forms in 2d sing., 723; in 2d du., 704, 831 a, 839, 1007 b; in 3d du., 793 h, 839; in 1st pl., 621 b, 658, 676 a, 793 h, 831 a, 832; in 2d pl., 618, 621 b, 654, 658, 669, 690, 704, 707, 723, 831 a, 839; in 3d pl., 793 h, 831 a.

su-class of verbs — see nu-class.

subjunctive mode, 533; formation and endings, 557–62; its first persons used later as imperative, 533, 574, 578; subj. use of augmentless preterit forms, 563, 587; uses of subj. mode, 574–82.

suffixes, 98–100; forming adverbs, 1097–1109; do. declinable stems — see derivation.

superlative — see comparison.

surd and sonant sounds — see sonant.

syllables, quantity of, 79; distinguished as heavy and light, 79.

system of sounds, 19–75: vowels and diphthongs, 19–30; consonants, 31 ff.; mutes, 32–50; semivowels, 51–8; sibilants, 59–64; aspiration, 65, 66; visarga and other breathings, 68, 69; anusvāra, 70–3; unwritten sounds defined by Hindu grammarians, 74, 230; scheme of spoken alphabet, with notice of comparative frequency of the sounds, 75; quantity, 76–9; accent and its designation, 80–97.


tan-class of verbs — see u-class.

tatpuruṣa-compounds — see determinatives.

tense in verbal inflection, 532; tense-systems, 535; present-system, 599–779; perfect-system, 780–823; aorist-systems, 824–930; future-systems, 931–950.

tenth class of verbs — see causative conjugation, and cur-class.

tertiary, or derivative from secondary, conjugations, 1025, 1039, 1052, 1068 a.

third class of verbs — see reduplicating class.

time, particles of, 1103, 1122 j.

transliteration, general method of, 5; of sign of elision, 135 b; of combined final and initial vowels, 126 a; of anusvāra, 73 c; of accent, 83 a, 89.

tud-class of verbs — see á-class.


u-class (eighth, tan-class) of verbs, 603, 697–716; formation of stem, 697; inflection, 698–707; roots of the class, 709; irregular root kṛ or kar, 714, 715; other irregularities, 716.

uncombinable (pragṛhya) final vowels, 138.

uninflected words — see indeclinables.

union-vowels, 254, 555 b, c; i in present inflection, 630, 631, 640; in perfect, 796–8, 803; in aorist,