[q] iissara & iisvara

[Artur Karp]

At 15:59 99-12-19 -0800, N. Ganesan wrote:

>Have a question:
>In the sanskritization of iiza/iiSa/iissara to iizara, how is the
>"v" in iizvara added? Is this common and any parallel examples
>could be given?


Compare OIA azva --> MIA assa. Reverse change of  VssV (with its suspect
geminate)  into VzvV (which agrees with the OIA morpho-phonemic pattern)
would produce nice Sanskrit-like hyper-correct forms. See CDIAL <Phonetic
Analysis>, OUP, London 1971, where convenient lists of OIA words containing
particular sound or sound group; on p. 229 a list of  ~ss~ and ~ss- words,
all of them reconstructed by Turner and classed as "defectives".

BTW, MIA cannot have Issara (iissara), but only issara (as in Pali) or Isara
(Prakrit), CDIAL 1619; unlike OIA, consonantal clusters in MIA may be
preceded  by only short vowels.

With regards,

Artur Karp
University of Warsaw
Poland






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