Re: Iti & ti

I'm sorry to say that I don't see anything subtle about the problem:
If you wanted to put in long hours of research, you could scan the
Gatha literature for an example of _nti_ that breaks the metre, i.e.,
demonstrating that an earlier revision of the poem once had (the
Prakritic) _itti_, but was supplanted.

Although I see your point that the Prakritic reduplication (retaining
the vowel) would also be possible in Pali, this is the sort of thing
that seems to have been eliminated from the canon (if ever it was once
there) in subsequent rounds of standardization (and Sanskritization)
of the text.

Following standard (Pali) rules of euphony, the "i" is omitted, and,
resultantly, anuswara matches the consonant class of the "t" --the
only place I would expect to find anything else is Senart's horrible
transcription of Kacc., where all the euphony/crasis is undone for the
sake of clarity.

E.M.