Re: Iti & ti

Hi again,

> I was told that in some Praakrits -i + iti becomes -i
>tti (similarly for a, u, e and o), but what happens in these Praakrits with
>a dental n + iti ?  >  -n tti ?

Going back to the original question, I've been looking through Woolner's Intro to Prakrit and noticed a couple of things that might help.

1) I don't think you're likely to have a situation: dental n + iti. The prakrits don't like final consonants. A final -n would automatically become anusvara.  (§29)

2) Woolner gives the simple rule (without further explanation): "iti after anusvara becomes, ti, after vowels tti." (§74)

So Eisel's explanation based on Kacc is looking more and more correct to me. Anusvara causes elision of the unaccented intial /i/ in iti, and then goes to the nasal of the following consonant.

The Pali rules seem to coincide with the Prakrit rules as far as the niggahitasandhi is concerned here.

best regards,

/Rett