Dear Yong Peng,

> I have been following your discussion on the previous post with much

interest. I understand that discussion is yet to be concluded, but
pardon me, I will go ahead with the text, and present it to the best
of my understanding.

I think Mahinda's previous post with his correction "the bones of
Gotami" and his giving it some context concluded the discussion on the
grammatical gender of 'dhaatu' for me, at least for now.

> Bhuuvaadayo saddaa dhaatavo.
> bhuuv, etc. / words / verbal roots

J: The morphemes beginning with 'bhuu' are the verbal roots.

note: the 'v' in 'bhuuvaadayo' is due to sandhi: bhuu-v-aadayo. Sadda
is a general term that can apply to more than just words as it can
apply to other linguistic items such as letters and verbal roots.

> Ga.nato te a.t.thavidhaa bhuuvaadiga.no rudhaadiga.no divaadiga.no

svaadiga.no kiyaadiga.no gahaadiga.no tanaadiga.no curaadiga.no caati.

> From the verbal class, they are eight-fold: bhuu-conjugation,

rudh-conjugation, div-conjugation, su-conjugation, ki-conjugation,
gah-conjugation, tan-conjugation and cur-conjugation.

J: According to class, they are of eight kinds: the bhuuvaadi class,
the rudhaadi class, the divaadi class, the svaadi class, the kiyaadi
class, the gahaadi class, the tanaadi class, and the curaadi class.

note: bhuuvadiga.no, for example, means the class beginning with (the
verbal root) 'bhuu'.

> Anekavidhaa hi paccayaa naanappakaaresu naamanaama kitanaama

samaasanaama taddhitanaamaakhyaatesu pavattanato.

> Manifold, indeed, the suffixes, out of the many, [include]

substantive, verbal derivative, compound, nominal derivative, [and]
among verbs, from the process.

J: For the suffixes are of many kinds on account of (their) occurences
in various ways in ?nouns, primary derivatives, compounds, secondary
derivatives, and verbs.

note: I'm not sure what naamanaama refers to as most nouns are primary
or secondary derivatives or compounds.

Best wishes,
Jim