>Rett, can you tell us more about the index in Achim Fahs' Grammatik
>des Pali? Thanks.

Hi,

Sure, I'd be happy to. The index of difficult-to-recognize forms in
Fahs contains approximately 2500 entries and is keyed to a list of
Pali roots with derived forms. The root list has 315 entries and
appears to me to be very comprehensive. It seems to be based on forms
culled from the literature rather than theoretically possible forms
(but I'm not 100% sure about that). The root list and index together
comprise 188 pages, or a bit over 2/5 of the whole book.

An example of how to use it: the form 'dicchare', which isn't the
sort of thing I'd recognize right off the bat, is referred back to
the table for the root daa (give). There it's listed as the
desiderative 3rd person plural medium. Without that kind of help I
probably would have given up Pali in a fit of hair-tearing despair.

In Geiger's word-index you can find an entry: "dicchati, -re" with
references to sections, and the advice "see daa".

If you had guessed the root is 'daa' and looked in the PED, the
article mentions desideratives in 'dicchati, diti, etc'. From there
one would just have to remember the rare use of mediums in Pali.

hope this is of interest,

/Rett