SV: sandhi of Skt. -as

[Urban Lindqvist]

Patrick C. Ryan wrote:

> R-S wrote:

>> By this I don't doubt your analysis of dive-dive; only that it may be
>> due to predictable Sandhi.  I'm unaware of how many examples for the process
>> seen in /edhi/ exist, but /divedive/ may be another one, but then for an
>> early sound-law, involving early univerbation of *divas + *dive not a
>> productive rule still operative in historical times.

> Pat writes:

> Rather than the result of an ordinary sandhi process, I am inclined to
> suspect that [*adhi{'}] to [edhi{'}] may be a rare example of Sanskrit
> Umlaut.

Another example of -as > -e (/_voiced dental) might be su:re duhita: (RV
1.34.5d), if we choose to interpret su:re as a genitive form.

Patrick C. Ryan also wrote:

> Under the rubric "Euphonic Combination", he [Whitney] discusses -s in
> combination on pp. 58-61.

> [---]

> in 176a, he mentions several pronouns in -a{'}s that simply lose their -s's
> before any consonant: sa dadarCa, 'he saw'.

The -s in question probably didn't exist in the first place (cf. Gr. ho,
Av. ha:).

Urban