From: Rob
Message: 44120
Date: 2006-04-04
>Why would such a reinterpretation be applied to s-stems?
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@> wrote:
>
> [Mate:]
> > > Cf. -a:ni in yuga:ni. The -i is the same and the anusva:ra is the
> > > -n- from this -ni. Thus vaca:(m.)s(i).
>
> > Where does the -n-/anusva:ra come from, though?
>
> It looks like the result of a reinterpretation of the ablaut of stems
> in -nt- (-vant-/-mant-): Where weak cases have -at- (-vat-/-mat-),
> strong cases have -ant- (-vant-/-mant-) with apparent n-insertion.