Re: another odd form

Thanks, Ole and Jim for very instructive posts on this topic.

Ole, you mentioned the law of Morae being formulated in nuce early on. Was that in the Rupasiddhi, and if so in the comments to one of the suttas in the Sandhikappa? I would skim that chapter looking for it weren't in Burmese script. It would take me half a day to find, I fear. A pointer?

When you say 'economy is everything', and tone down the importance of Geiger's phonetic chapter, do you mean that studying general phonetics or more classical philology would be more fruitful for doing this sort of analysis?

About the on-glide /a-/ I think of the quaint English expressions like goin' a-walking, goin' a-courtin', both of which I believe are from metrical contexts.

best regards,

/Rett