American Journal of Philology, Vol. 13 (Classic Reprint)

Vol. XIII, I. Whole No. 49. I. THE ARYAN FUTURE. Part I. The Participle in the Rig-V eda. Part II. Participial and Verbal -F utures in the Rig-V eda. Part III. The I ndo-I ranic Future. Part IV. The Sigmatic Future. Part V. The Primitive Future. Part I. The Vedic Participle. In the Rig-V eda are found not only verbals of purely adjectival significance, but also adjectives of verbal character, which like active participles govern the accusative. The province of such verbals is enlarged in later literature by the application of terminations, hitherto intransitive, in a new active sense. The usage is doubtless A ryan, and includes nouns as well as adjectives. In this paper A ryan means I ndo-E uropean, I ndo-G ermanic, Teutarian, -tc. Purely adjectival in the Rig-V eda arc, for instance, the verbals vivici sidsdnit gainsd. In later literature the terminations -akay -uka, etc., are added to those of active sense in a, i, in u, van, nuy am of the Vedic period. The simple root, participles proper modified by affix, tor-stems, gerunds, infinitives, st -called absolutes, and stems in anc complete the Vedic list. Compare Gaedicke, A ccusative, p. 184 sq. who rightly rejects diisti and didrkm (P. W. and Grassmann with accusative). The corresponding forms dipsti stsasii take no object till late (W hitney, Gr. 1178 f. to modify). For -aka, -uka compare R. .pdvakd sdnukd (without object) with the later and active ghdtuka, etc. Nominal construction of other sort is almost unknown in the Rig-V eda, except in the case of infinitives (G aedicke, p. 192 ;D elbrllck, Syntax, p. 181). With the noun mAm kmenot A. V., compare the adjective, R. V. 8. 11. 7, tvim Jkdma, perhaps also the noun vanamkdrana, and, A. V. 19. 2. 5, ayaksmarhkdmna (noun-adjective. I ndex; P. W. a-karana).
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