another odd form

Hello,

Ja VI 181 records the odd form paratthaddho. It is evidently a past
participle, tthaddho being equivalent to Sanskrit stabdha. The etymology of
para, however, seems to defy any attempt at identification. The
commentator's gloss suggests that paratthaddho is equivalent to upatthaddho.
This must be correct. But how did the reading paratthaddho originate? /pa/
is undoubtedly part of the original preposition /upa/. However, there seems
to be no etymological justification for /ra/. I would like to suggest that
/r/ and /a/ are glides. Originally the /u/ of /upa/ was dropped for
prosodical reasons, and speakers inserted compensatory glides. /r/ is a
highly frequent glide in Ja, occuring in intervocalic position. According to
my calculations is represnts one third of all glides in Ja V /m/
representing two thirds of the occurrencies. Since Pali disallows the
cluster /rtth/ a vocalic on-glide /a/. The use of the on-glide /a/ as a
verbal on-glide has been misinterpreted as an inflectional item. For
instance apucchasi Sn 1051has been taken as an aorist with the inflection of
the present. However, it is a regular present form introduced by the
on-glide /a/.

Ole Pind


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