4- Join स “ this one,” in sandhi with उवाच, अस्ति. Do the same with HT. 5. What happens when at the end of a word is followed by a sibilant? Give examples. 6. Join नरा: and अभवन् रमते and अत्र नारी and आह इह and ऋषि : 7. What is the name of the sign, and how is it employed? 8. When do roots ending in a sonant aspirate throw the aspiration on the beginning consonant of the suffixes? Give examples. 9. What becomes of when final? Give examples. 10. Give instances in which final vowels are not subject to sandhi. 1. Decline signification. GRAMMATICAL QUESTIONS. पथिन्, विवस् msc., अप, गो, giving their 2. Decline स बलवान् अश्व : with sandhi. 3. State wherein सर्व differs in declension from यत् 4. Give the genitives of the numerals 2-10 in all their genders. 5. State the names of the 6 classes of compounds, and give examples. 6. Give one example of each of the ten verbal classes in the second person singular and plural parasmai. 7. State the common characteristics of the six classes as contrasted with the four. *8. Give the benedictive parasm. and atmane of भू, and conjugate it through. COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY. 1. State the meaning of the three Sanskrit roots विद, their present tense, and their connection with each other and with the classical languages. 2. What is the origin of the infinitive in and the gerund in What corresponds to them in Greek and Latin? 3. What is the meaning of the words निधन, सङ्गाम and ग्राम, दम (Vedic ), and how does the Greek throw light on these Sanskrit words? 4. What are the representatives of Sanskrit प, भ, त, द, ध, in English? Give examples. 5. Point out words in English cognate with उद, वाञ्छ, वर्ण, मृदु, प्रिय. LITERATURE AND MYTHOLOGY. 1. What is the oldest god of the Indogermans? Show reasons why you consider him so. What are the four chief gods in the Rgveda? What are the Lôkapâlas? 2. What do you know about the origin of the Hitôpadêça? 3. State why the Mahâbhârata in its present form must be later than Alexander. What are the names of the five brothers that are the heroes of it? Give their signification. Who was Karna? 4. State what you know of the history of Sanskrit philology. Show its threefold importance with regard to the practical management of Indian affairs; with regard to ancient history in general; with regard to linguistical science and ethnology. [N. B.-The last question, if correctly, but briefly answered, will count only 4. According to the more or less details of accurate information, the number will be extended.] Total, 220 EXAMINATION FOR PRIZES IN MODERN LANGUAGES. French Language. DR. ABELTSHAUSER. Traduisez en Anglais : Beginning, Chaque étoile à son tour vient apparaître au ciel...... VICTOR HUGO, Promenade-Ode vingtième. Traduisez en Français : Beginning, Our cock, which always crew at eleven,. Ending, "hospitality is one of the first Christian duties." GOLDSMITH, Vicar of Wakefield, I. Traduisez en Anglais : a. Bien vous prend, ma sœur, que son noble génie b. C. Je l'aperçois qui vient; et sur cette matière, Son Monsieur Trissotin me chagrine, m'assomme; d. Sa réponse est une franche défaite. e. C'est une franche coquette. II. Traduisez en Français: a. All his teeth have fallen out. b. The wiser a man (on) is, the more indulgent he is to the failings of others. C. Although he came into a good property, he is none the richer for it. d. Covered with flowers. Filled with envy. To enjoy life. [Donnez la règle pour l'emploi de la préposition dont vous vous servirez.] III.- -a. Quand doit-on se servir de pas devant plus, et quand doit-on l'omettre? b. De quel nombre doit être le Verbe après les sujets suivants: un peuple de sauvages-la plupart des gens-une foule de pauvres-toute sorte de livres. [Donnez la règle pour votre réponse.] IV.—a. Dites la signification et la dérivation de : Lieu, lieue; sein, sain, seing, ceint, saint, cinq; ver, vers, vert, verre, vair; le pendule, la pendule; le période, la période; un aigle, une aigle; un trompette, une trompette; le garde, la garde; comte, compte. b. La différence entre: un garde du corps et un corps de garde, quoique et quoi-que, plutôt et plus-tôt. V.-a. Que veut-on dire par la Pléiade au 16me Siècle ? b. La Vie et les œuvres de Marot? c. Celles de Rabelais? Son influence sur quelques littérateurs Anglais ? d. Dans Hudibras se trouvent ce vers: Beginning, You must know, then, that I am very well descended; Ending, interpreter to Punch and King Solomon in all his glory. GOLDSMITH, Adventures of a Strolling Player. I. Translate into English: a. Er kommt erst von Academien, dünkt sich eben nicht weise, aber glaubt doch, er wisse mehr als andere. b. Ich liess das gut seyn. c. Besonders macht man viel wesens von seiner ältesten Tochter. d. Wenn ihm nur kein Unglück widerfahren ist! II. Translate into German : a. He waited for me an hour and a half-two hours and a half. b. It hurts me. (Use the substantive weh.) c. He related all sorts of stories to me. d. What is the matter?-What is the matter with you? III. a. When are the particles, durch, über, um, unter, separable, and when inseparable? b. Is erschrecken a strong or a weak verb? c. Of what verbs must the infinitive sometimes be used instead of the past participle, and under what circumstances? d. When is the German definite article used for the English possessive pronoun, and by what construction is the omission compensated? (Write a sentence as an example.) IV.-a. What is the difference between the following words :-Wand, Mauer; Recht, Gesetz; Fräulein, Fräuchen; Frau, Weib; der Band, der Theil (eines Buches); der Mensch, das Mensch; Mund, Maul? b. Write the two plurals of the following words :-Land, Band, Wort, Ding, Gesicht, Horn; and tell the difference each makes in the sense. c. The preposition to may be rendered into German by zu, nach, auf, an, or by simply using the dative? State the rule for the employment of this, and of each German preposition, and what case it governs in this sense. V.-Lessing-When did he flourish? What are his principal works? What effects did he produce on German literature? Italian Language. PROFESSOR MARANI. Translate the following passages into English 1. Beginning, Aristodemo. A franco...... Ending, Si torni in guerra. MONTI, Aristodemo, act ii. sc. 7. 2. Beginning, Vincenzo Gioberti Torinese, sacerdote, filosofo,... Ending, lo lasciò correre ne' suoi Stati, onde si diffuse in tutta Italia. BALBO, Compendio della Storia d'Italia. Translate the following passage into Italian : Beginning, The old family mansion of the Vaughans..... LONGFELLOW, Kavanagh, xvi. |