Correction to post Sanskrit words ending in cerebral N

[Hans Henrich Hock]

Outside grammatical terms, final retroflex N does not seem to occur
freely.  One example that I have noted is _bhAN iti_, which as far as
I recall occurs either in the BAU or the ChU and seems to be
quasi-onomatopoetic in nature.  (Note similar violations of ordinary
phonotactics in expressions like _jhaT iti_, without voicing of _T_
to _D_.)

Hans Henrich Hock


>Dear list members,
>
>Apologies.
>
>In my post "Sanskrit words ending in cerebral N, where I wrote "palatal"
>that of course should have been "cerebral" and should have been as follows:
>
>
>
>>
>>(Harvard-Kyoto convention used in the following)
>>
>>Whitney in his Grammar (section 143. first paragraph) says "the [cerebral]
>>N
>>is allowed [as a permitted final] but is quite rare;"
>>
>>MacDonell in both his Sanskrit Grammar for Students and his Vedic Grammar
>>for Students (section 27. both books) says that cerebral N does not occur
>>as
>>a permitted final.
>>
>>
>>Do any of the list members know if there are actually any Sanskrit words
>>ending in cerebral N in pausa and if so what they are?  And if so why
>>MacDonell who published after Whitney would explicitly exclude them?
>>
>>As an aside Prof. Deshpande in saMskRtasubodhinI page 109 in describing
>>external sandhi gives a rule for final N ("Final G, N, and n are doubled
>>after  a short vowel, and before any vowel.")
>>
>>Yours,
>>
>>Harry
>>
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