I can't seem to tell left from right; and it doesn't help that formats are not preserved.

khyaa khaa root 'tell'
aakhyaati akkhaati 3s present '(it) tells'
aakhyaata akkhata past participle 'told'

It appears to me that the forms on the left are in fact Sanskrit,
corresponding to Pali forms on the right.

G.B.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "gdbedell" <gdbedell@...> wrote:
>
> (i) Jim's note on "kiriya.m akkhaayati" raises some interesting issues.
> He takes akkhaayati as an active form meaning 'tells about' and considers
> why it looks like a passive. He doesn't consider what the relation might be
> between the following pairs of forms.
>
> khyaa khaa root 'tell'
> aakhyaati akkhaati 3s present '(it) tells'
> aakhyaata akkhata past participle 'told'
>
> It appears to me that the forms on the right are in fact Sanskrit,
> corresponding to Pali forms on the left. I haven't done an elaborate
> search, but the fact that aakhyaati and aakhyaata are not listed in the PTS
> dictionary suggests that they are not found in early Pali. Akkhaati and
> akkhaata are listed (p.2) though no technical meaning for akkhaata is
> given. The differences are simplification of khy to kh with gemination of
> kh to kkh and concomitant shortening of the prefix aa. The borrowing
> by Pali grammarians of the Sanskrit term aakhyaata 'finite verb' clearly
> caused some confusion, and it isn't clear (from what has been translated
> so far) how far Aggava.msa was aware of it.