Dear Jim,
thank you for your help.
Op 22-jun-2009, om 14:44 heeft Jim Anderson het volgende geschreven:

> The vikara.na suffixes are enumerated just slightly ahead in the
> section
> you're working on. These are conjugational signs that distinguish
> the eight
> classes of verbs in Aggava.msa's system. The suffix is added
> directly to the
> root, e.g,, bhuu + a > bhava to which we can then add the tense
> suffixes. In
> the verb "bhavati", we can see that the second "a" is the vikara.na
> suffix.

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N: I wonder about the term vikara.na: vikaroti is to change. And non-
vikara.na. Or do they mean: regular and irregular?
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> J: The non-vikara.na suffixes are described in Pariccheda 25 on
> verbs. "kha" is
> found at sutta 906 and the example given there is "titikkhati" for
> the root
> "tij". An example with the suffix "cha" is "jigucchati" in sutta
> 907 for the
> root "gup" and for "sa", the example "vima.msati" is given at sutta
> 909 for
> the root "man". And there are non-vikara.na suffixes for
> desideratives and
> denominatives too. I'm not sure if we can include causatives and
> passives
> here also.

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N: These are more complicated to analyse.
Nina.


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