4consonant roots also exist and became more frequent in the modern language due to a process of coining verbs from nouns that are themselves constructed from 3consonant verbs
अगदी बिहारची मैथिली ही भाषा, जी अर्धमागधीपासून निर्माण झाली असे मानले जाते, तीही व्याकरणदृष्ट्या मराठीला बरीच जवळ आहे.