Sound Synthesis in Indo European Indo Iranian and Sanskrit

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

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CHAPTER IV
INDO-IRANIAN SOUND SYNTHESIS
22. Innovations in the Indo-Iranian Stage
Indo-Iranian retained the Indo-European sound-synthesis in general. But certain innovations in sound-synthesis are also found in Indo-Iranian which are mostly due to phonetic changes of individual sounds and extension of sound-synthesis of certain positions to other positions.
23. Indo-Iranian Innovations in Vowel Synthesis
Innovations in vowel synthesis in IIr have resulted mostly due to the phonetic changes of individual sounds; i. e. IE ă, ě, č➤IIr ǎ. IE †, } > IIr and IE, >IIr ǎ. Such innovations are discussed below.
24. IE ǎ, ě, Ŏ>IIr ǎ. This simplified the IE complicated type of the sound, synthesis of primary vowels given above in 3. Thus in IIr ǎ-+-ǎ>ā. In IE however there is question of sound synthesis of primary vowels of same qualities (3-1) and of primary vowels of different qualities (3-2). But IIr is free from this variant treatment due to merger of ǎ, ě, č.
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Some examples are cited below to illustrate the simpler system of sound-synthesis of primary vowels in IIr. More examples are cited above in 3-1 & 3-2. e.g.
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IIr aaž->až- (<IE a+ag>ag 3-1) (perfect stem). cp Skt aja (cp Av az- 'move'), cp OIcel ōk, Gk ege. IIr vṛka+as>vṛkās (<IE wļq"o+es>wlq"os) cp Skt vṛkāḥ, Av vǝhrkå, cp Goth wulfōs.