semivowels

Vidhyanath Rao rao.3 at osu.edu
Wed May 2 09:42:50 UTC 2001


> Thinking about vocalic /r/, I got to wondering:
> do sequences like these occur in Sanskrit?
> rya, krya, #rya, rva, vya, vra

Peter already gave examples where these result from sandhi.
As far as word internal examples go, I doubt that krya or #rya occur.
But there is no reason why others can't, and do occur: arya-,
arva(n)t-, vyatha-, vraja- all occuring in RV.



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