VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
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Well, Kuiper (sic) has again listed a number of this and related suffixes in his 1991 book:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Aryans in the Rigveda, Amsterdam: Rodopi 1991</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>See pages 45-47: -ASa, -ISa, -USa (UNICODE: -āṣa, īṣa-, ūṣa-) ; </div><div>also: āla, aṣa, ṭa, nas, ya, ra, śa, ha.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Emuṣa is a bit more complex, also in view of Kupier's (partial) retraction 1991: 18; 2. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers, M. WItzel </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:18 AM, John Peterson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Editors:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Details:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Send email to <a href="mailto:listserv@listserv.syr.edu">listserv@listserv.syr.edu</a> and say: INFO VYAKARAN</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subscribe:Send email to <a href="mailto:listserv@listserv.syr.edu">listserv@listserv.syr.edu</a> and say:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>SUBSCRIBE VYAKARAN FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Substitute your real name for first_name last_name)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Archives: <a href="http://listserv.syr.edu">http://listserv.syr.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Clancy,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The only person I know who might have an answer to this question is David Stampe in Hawaii, who not only knows his way around Proto-Munda but also Proto-Mon-Khmer: <a href="mailto:stampe@hawaii.edu">stampe@hawaii.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Otherwise: Are you sure it really is Munda? I have seen references on /u?a/ being Proto- (or Para-?) Munda (I believe it was /Emu?a/ in a work by Kuijper) but I don't recall if there was any justification (linguistic or otherwise) for that assumption. I'm just curious, as I don't know of anything even remotely similar to it in the modern languages.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">John</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Zitat von "Clements, Joseph Clancy" <<a href="mailto:clements@INDIANA.EDU">clements@INDIANA.EDU</a>>:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Editors:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tej K. 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