Re: [INDOLOGY] kṣupnādi class of words and the word nagara

[Harry Spier]

Thank you to Dhaval Patel, Christopher Vielle and Roland Steiner for the
clarification.
Best wishes,
Harry Spier

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 6:27 AM Roland Steiner via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

>
> > Monier-Williams dictionary says the word "nagara" is in the  kṣupnādi
> class
> > of words, i.e. those words in which the "n" is never cerebralized.even
> > though it should be by the rules of internal sandhi.
> >
> > I'm not clear how this is relevent to the word "nagara" since the "n" is
> > the first letter of the word My understanding was that the relevent rule
> > for cerebralizing the n was an internal sandhi rule and didn't apply
> > accross word boundaries.  I.e if the r ṛ ṝ ṣ were in the previous word?
>
>
> Cf. Böhtlingk/Roth (PW) s.v. nagara: "Das na wird in keinem comp. ṇa
> nach gaṇa kṣubhnādi zu P. 8, 4, 39." ("The na is not cerebralized in a
> compound according to gaṇa kṣubhnādi ...").
>
> Example: giri-nagara "mountain-city" (in contrast to
> giri-ṇadī/giri-nadī "mountain-torrent").
>
> Best,
> Roland Steiner
>
>
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