CARNÁTACA LANGUAGE. 155 as 387 3 av mu one that has the moon on his head, i. e. the deity Sheva ; woman with a large head, EXCEPTIONS. If the subsequent word terminate in the syllables ału, os, ou, now, no, , or ew, the atfix ng must be added to denote the feminine gender; as ens Yori a female that has eyes like the lotus flower. The nouns 73, 7,% onions Too, event, and fifa, when forming the second member of a compound word, take the affix na to denote both the masculine and feminine gender ; as dorg aaw one that is excessively bountiful; Fainiatu a person that is much occupied with business ; డాడ్డ డారియు a great merchant ; 2 లజ్జుగియు an inferior officer ; శుడు ర్యా పియు a person that is much given to anger. Rule 9th, When two or more nouns in the nominative case are joined together, the affixes of all, but the last, are omitted; and that takes either the aflix of the singular, or of the plural; as evro tu w Bairob, or QoS u MUP a &tu, the elephant, the horse, and the camel. Digitized by Google
