SV: another odd form

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Sendt: 29. oktober 2005 15:22
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Emne: Re: [palistudy] 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?

Right. I'll trace it and send you the reference as soon as I find time to do
so.

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?

General phonetics, certainly. Think of the absurdities that have been heaped
upon a term like antevaasin : a vaasin at the ante (end, limit, or something
similar)? I beg you pardon. It is obvious that the term must be derived from
antas + vaasin. The original antar, the pausal form of which is anta.h. was
reinterpreted as antas. Since the sandhi form antovaasin would involve
rounding of the lips and retraction of the tongue before labial /v/. In tems
of economy of expression, speakers prefered the alternative sandhi form
ante.

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.

This is a very good example.

best regards,

/Rett


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