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True r is the wordfinal
words with true r
About the postpositions
rootnouns are rootlike nouns.
ending means
Wordfinal is what is at the end a word.
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There are two kinds of wordfinal
the ru, that carry label u, used to be
and the rest, that don't carry label
I call the wordfinal
A ru always comes from rules such as sasaju, ahan, nazchavyaprazAn, that replaced
The words with true r had
The words that end in
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Words that end in true r are few. These are some of the most common --
(and also
There are also a handful of nounbases that end in
( Most of those are rootnouns, and rvoru will work on them. )
This nounbasefinal
and when halGyA, supodhA, svamorna or other rules erase their sup --
Some sentences with the true r-enders
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There are three groups of roots --
seT roots make ArdhadhAtukasyeDvalAdeH work.
aniT roots don't.
veT roots optionally do.
Crude recipe to figure out which root is in which class --
Roots that have more than one vowel are all seT.
For the one-vowellers, the rule of thumb is --
" Most
This rule sorts out correctly most of the roots (for instance bhU car are seT, dA
(A) the few dozens of veT roots,
(B) a handful of vowel roots, and
(C) a hundred of consonant roots, like the very common: dviS
So you might memorize the hundred-odd exceptions and be done with it, as Kale's grammar advises. But I've never done that; instead, if I want to see if a root is seT or veT or aniT, I look at the entry for that root in the mmw. It always lists derivatives and if many have an iT, I conclude that the root might be seT. Another thing you could do, TBH, is look at the ashtadhyayi dot com dhAtupATha but TBH I never did that myself.
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The postpositions are certain unchanging words that link to a noun, that always takes the same case.
Examples --
The postposition
The postposition prati means "towards" and is used with a noun that means the place towards which motion happens. That noun always carries second --
This postposition prati is not the same thing as the preverb prati --
Postpositions usually come right after whatever they link by sense to --
but sometimes they appear in front --
or even in the middle --
The exception to that is the
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The prAdi are --
They are words, and also unchanging.
(see also eGipararUpam).
Most of the prAdi are used often as preverbs, and seldom as postpositions.
For instance, anu means "after" in thesens4e of following.
Use as preverb --
Use as postposition --
The use as postposition is uncommon in the epics, but very common in the veda.
See also list of preverbs.
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A rootnoun is a nounbase that looks like a root. Examples --
nI- "leader", from root nI "lead"
They are formed by adding to the root some kRt affixes that add no real letters, such as kvip. I call those affixes rootnounmaker affixes. Example --
The root may get a
Most of these nounbases can only be used as a latter --
A rarity --
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When I say ending, I mean either
-- a sup ( noun ending) from list svaujas
or
-- a tiG ( verb ending) from list tiptas
The noun endings are added to nounbases, and the verb endings are added to roots.
For instance, the ending of
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example 1:
therefore the second
therefore rule sasaju applies to the second
and does not apply to the first
example 2:
so the last
So rule atoguNe won't work on
example 3:
the manas- part of
so the first
so sasaju aplies to it, making a wordfinal ru,
which is turned into
which is then caught by visarjanIyasyasaH, making
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