Sound Synthesis in Indo European Indo Iranian and Sanskrit

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

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INDO-EUROPEAN CONSONANT SYNTHESIS 25
-suffixes -tastar etc. Thus in a combination of voiceless aspirate-tastar. Skt freely uses the connecting vowel -i and in combination of voiced aspirate ttastar Skt generalizes the type voiced non-aspirate +dhaldhar which clearly avoids the chances of back-formation and rootconfusion. Even Avestan presents both the types of assimilation of voiced aspirate +tastar, e.g. bh+t is sometimes represented in Av as bdh & sometimes as pt.