--- Ong Yong Peng <pali.smith@...> wrote:

> In Lesson 4, which discusses the aorist. The example used for 2nd
> person singular is upasa.mkami. Is this a typing error? Should it be
> 'upasa.mkamo' instead?

The Pali grammarians give -o as the basic second person singular suffix
of the aorist active (Kaccaayana 430, Saddaniiti 901). Narada's
grammar follows this, but says 'The second person "o" is mostly changed
into "i"' (page 27). Gair and Karunatillake say that this verb has
"the -is Aorist" and give the same paradigm as Warder (page 87).
According to Collins, the suffix -o appears only with root aorists and
there only as an option (pages 87-8). Clearly upasa.mkami is what
Warder intended and is not a typographical error. As to what is the
'best' or 'correct' form, some study is required to investigate usage
in actual texts; I am not aware of any such studies.

George Bedell


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