অসমীয়া ব্যাকৰণ আৰু ভাষাতত্ত্ব Example :-Zend.-“para kavahmad nered” (=away from any man). = Assamese-“para kono manuhar". =S.-“Para kasmat narat" (?). Such pecularities in Assamese have West-Aryan analogies. In fact their west-Aryan affinities appear to be more direct than in any other Eastern Prakrtic language of India. It may be concluded either that the Assamese had contact with the West-Aryan tribes before their separation from the Sanskrit speaking people : or, more probably, that both the Assamese and such tribes descended from the same source. (3) vedic element Certain Assamese words in common use, especially among the illiterate villagers are found in the Vedic literature. Some grammatical peculiarities of the language of the Vedas are also met with in Assamese. I give below a few examples. Vocabulary :- Assamese Apa Meaning. =Venerable or res- | pectable person in addressisg), =a goading stick. vedic. Aptah (learned : RK. . 10.34), Cf. S.dptuli (=trustworthy person). Achari Ai । Api Abhu Astra, Astra (plougher's good Rk. IV. 574). Api (woman, mother : Rk. I. 26.3 : . 31.16). Abhi (Praise). Anabhu (inequitous) (Rk. I. 5.9), Aya (woman having husband Rk I, 28.7). =mother. =a girl, woman. =unacquainted, art- less. =woman having hus- band; girls assem- bled on ceremonial occasions. =Jdleness. Ayati Ut, । Ot, Cf. Utiya Ena Ene Ohar =lazy. =This sort of. =In this way. udder. Kala a kind of pulse. Uti, luti (Preservation, aid : Rk. I. 8.9). End ( =in this way : Rk 1. 25.3. Udha (=udder), cf. S.Eddhas (=udder), Khalva (=some sort of grain or legu- minous papt, it is mentioned with other grains of all sorts in Vaj. San, &VIII. 12) and as be ing crushed with Dead in the Ath. v. (II. 31.1; v. 23.8)]. Kuhavid (where: Rk. x, 40.2), Akadhyoga (=worthless, fruitless : Apte). Rohsin Rundhay where, whither. worthless, 1 fbid., Vol. v, p. 266.. see also Macdonell-vedic Grammar, 178. see Macdonell-vedic Grammar 91 (6).
