Sound Synthesis in Indo European Indo Iranian and Sanskrit

Author(s): Satya Swarup Mishra
Publisher: Ashutosh Prakashan Sansthan

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12 SOUND SYNTHESIS IN IE, IIR & SANSKRIT
6. Combination of IE Reduced Primary Vowel a with
Secondary Vowels.
IE 2+tlå> diphthongs wilou and IE a +r/limin >ar, ar, əm, ən. But examples for combination can be cited only for a tř. The rest of the combinations are to be conjectured on the basis of the occurrences of IE au, ar, əm etc. in radical forms. Even in case of disyllabic roots ending in a (-Skt i, Gk a), o is attested only before personal endings with initial consonants (vide Brugmann CGIGL : IV p. 114). e. g. Skt vamimi (IE wema-mi), Gk ágamai (<IE mĝamai). But Skt abravam, Av mraom (<IE (e)mrew-mm) beside Skt abravit, braviti, bravimi etc,
Examples of a +i>ai IE stha +1-men (opt 1st pl) > IE sthaimen cp Gb
staimen. IE du-na +i-to (opt mid 3rd sg) > IE dunaito cp Glo
dúnaito (cp Skt vrnita). 7. Combination of IE Secondary Vowels with Primay
Vowels
Combination of IE secondary vowels with primary vowels resulted in loss of syllabicity of the preceding secondary vowels. Thus t, å,}, , , +-ă. , > y, w, r, 1, m, n t-ă, ?, ;. But if the preceding syllable was heavy the secondary vowel became syllabic cum consonantal and consequently the above combination resulted in iy, uw, gr, ll, ņm, în +-ă, . . This treatment (viz. iy, uw etc. + 4. This futher strengthens the assumption (vide footnote
2 above) that -m is the ending (and not -m,) because a is regularly lost before-m just like other vowel endings. cp Skt arodam, abravam etc. and never arod im, abravim
although Skt shows.rodimi, bravimi, vamimi etc.