Re: words ending in guu, once more

Dear Ole,

Understandably the traditional Sanskrit and Pali grammars would not
explain it in a way that is acceptable in terms of modern phonological
theories. For endings in P. -guu or Skt. -ga, the Kaa"sikaav.rtti derives
-ga from the root gam + .da (. . . game.h .dapratyayo bhavati || ad
Panini III:2.48). Perhaps the root 'gaa' (to go) would have been a better
choice: ga < gaa + .da like j~na < j~naa + ka (Panini III:1.135). It is
interesting that the -u suffix (ruu) in Pali 'bhikkhu' is the same suffix
used for -guu with shortening of 'uu' to 'u' according to Mmd ad
Kacc-v 403 (Be). The explanations presented in the traditional grammars
are adequate for my purposes given that my main interest is in learning how
the language was understood by the traditional grammarians and commentators.

Best wishes,
Jim

> Dear Jim and Eisel,
>
> Words ending in -guu or ~nuu and the like are difficult to explain without
> intrepreting them with the background of Indoeuropean (IE)reconstruction
> attempts. The problem is that -guu or ga, and ~nuu or ~na are not
> explicable without some basic phonological assumptions of IE
> reconstruction. In any case, the ending -uu is not easily interpretable as
> derived from -gam, but rather from the root -gaa. The only question is
> how to explain the ending -uu. I have suggested an interpretation, but the
> necessary discussion  about how to interpret these forms have not yet
> entered modern Sanskrit etymological dictionaries. The same type of forms
> as those found in Pali  are recorded in Sanskrit, which is important.
>
> Best wishes,
> Ole Pind

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