odd form
From: Ole Holten Pind
Message: 1759
Date: 2006-04-19
Dear Lance and group,
I managed to locate the letter from H. Smith concerning the odd forms
jiridanti/jiiranti/jhiiranti. It does not add anything to what Smith
published in his edition of Sadd. The explanation consists of a reference to
ยง 326 of Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit Sprache mentioning forms that
initially contain the cluster /k.s/, which in some cases devellop into /jh/
in MI. Smith apparently thought that the reading jhiiranti (found in a
Sinhalese edition of Sp instead of jiiranti) indicated that this verb is
derived from the root k.si/k.sii: to destroy, etc. This explanation is
linguistically dubious to say the very least. How does one explain /r/ on
this interpretation? And what about the semantics of the verb ? Apart from
this, I have nothing to add to what Lance and I have posted earlier on the
subject.
Regards,
Ole Pind
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