Dear Frank, Nina,

The problem is that initial consonants are sometimes doubled in compounds. See Geiger's Pali Grammar section 33 (page 25 in the 2005 edition):
"... there is also the gemination of the initial consonant of the second member of the compound: jaatassara 'natural lake; navakkhattu.m 'nine times',..."
Geiger then goes on to show that consonants are also often doubled when in combination with prepositions. Warder (page 11) says this is due to the "historical survival from an older phase of the langauge".

Hope this helps,

Bryan






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From: Nina van Gorkom <vangorko@...>
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, January 24, 2010 2:49:26 PM
Subject: Re: compounding - Re: [Pali] dhammavicaya


Dear Frank,
Op 24-jan-2010, om 18:36 heeft frank het volgende geschreven:

> Is there a good reason for
> "anapanaSSati" instead of "anapana-sati" ?

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N: I do not know much about this subject. We find something similar
with: sa"nkhaarakkhandha. When we look something up, we have to split
these words ourselves, I guess. We find very long compounds with many
word written together, sandhis. The computer cannot divide these, we
have to do this ourselves.
Perhaps others have better answers.
Nina.

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