Re: [tied] gwen etymology

> >> Were you looking in a dictionary/wordlist arranged by Devnagri order?
> >> If so, J comes between CH and JH (or Ñ, more likely).
> >
> >I have no idea what kind of order they were in, but the dicts I was

looking in

> >had G, then a couple letters, then GH, then a couple letters, then G and

GH

> >again, or something of the sort.
>
> Curious. I'm not terribly familiar with the history of the
> transcription of the Devana:gari: script. Maybe it was an older
> source with something like K KH G GH NG K^ K^H G^ G^H N^...
>

I'm not sure, but I think there's an old notation where c and j were
transcribed as k and g. If I'm not wrong Max Mueller used this notation.