Re: compounds in -guu

Eisel,

/vedaguu/ seems to occur only once in Kaccaayana in a sandhi example
(sa"nkhya.m nopeti vedaguu) in Kacc 14 but it can be found in the
Niruttidiipanii among the examples with the suffix /uu/ after the root
/gam/:

780.gamaa ruu {ka0 534; ruu0 592; nii0 1118}. kammupapadaa gamamhaa ruu hoti
kattari. `raanubandhentasaraadissaa'ti sabbadhaatvantalopo. paara.m gacchati
siilenaati paaraguu, veda.m vuccati aggamagga~naa.na.m, veda.m gacchatiiti
vedaguu, addhaana.m gacchatiiti addhaguu.

Fanciful or not, all the traditional Pali grammars I've seen so far agree
that -guu comes from the root /gam/.

There seems to be two major approaches to studying Pali, the Western or
skeptical approach and the Eastern or traditional approach. Both approaches
are welcome on this list.

Best wishes,
Jim

>I had thought that /vedaguu/ was one of the most commonly found examples.
>
> To me, there is nothing irregular about it... except the explanation of
> it.
>
> Doubtless the reference to /gam/ (etc.) is fanciful.
>
> E.M.


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