From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 44157
Date: 2006-04-05
On 2006-04-04 17:27, Rob wrote:> Thanks for the info! It seems that the situation in Old Indic wasI think it's an inner Indo-Iranian generalisation of an inherited
> convoluted indeed. Admittedly, I had not factored vrddhi into the
> equation. The forms _devá-_ and _devyá-_, with full vocalism (be it
> *e or *o), suggest recency within IE. Vrddhi is another story
> altogether. Do you think that the form _dáivya_ was inherited from IE
> itself or is a later innovation?
pattern of full-vowel insertion. Forms like (as if from
*dé:iw-jo-, where *e:i results from infixing an extra *e into *ei, are
something of an IIr. speciality.
Piotr
---------------------------Does vrddhi occur in all Indo-Iranian or only in Sanskrit? Because if it occurs only in Sanskrit, I wonder whether it is not the result of the reinterpretation of an alternation between a and a:, due to an earlier alternation of *e and *o in open syllables, as an alternation between short and long -- and that this long vowel was generalized to all derivative formations, including before resonants (long diphthongs and a:m, a:n, a:r before consonants).Andrew Jarrette