[INDOLOGY] Re: -t/-d

[Nathan McGovern]

Dear Mark,

I don't mean this to be a flippant question, but is it meaningful to ask 
which form is "original"? In English, is the indefinite article 
"originally" /a /but then becomes /an/ in front of vowels, or is it 
"originally" /an/ but then becomes /a /in front of consonants?

Best,

Nathan

*Having written this, it occurs to me that perhaps//one could make a 
comparative linguistic argument than /an/ is original because (I assume) 
it derives from German /ein/. But I don't know enough about the relevant 
comparative linguistics to say whether this is true, much less how it 
might translate to your question about Sanskrit /-t /and /-d/.

On 3/3/2021 8:33 PM, Mark Allon via INDOLOGY wrote:
>
> Dear list members,
>
> There seems to be inconsistency in modern Sanskrit grammars as to 
> whether the stems of pronouns and declined forms end in /-d/ or /-t/.
>
> MacDonnell’s /Sanskrit Grammar for Students/ has the stems as /mad, 
> asmad, tvad, yuṣmad, ta(d), ya(d)/, listing the abl. forms of the 
> personal pronouns as /mad, tvad, asmad, yuṣmad/. Of /tad /he gives the 
> nom. acc. sg. n. as /tad/ but lists the abl. sg. as /tasmāt/.
>
> Kale’s /Higher Sanskrit Grammar/ similarly gives the stems forms in 
> /-d/, has /tad/ for nom. acc. sg. n., but abl. /tasmāt/.
>
> /Devavāṇīpreveśika/gives all stem and declined forms in /-t/.
>
> Whitney’s /Sanskrit Grammar/ does not seem to list the stems of the 
> personal pronouns but gives the abl. singulars in /-t/ as he does with 
> the dem. sg. /tasm//āt/, /asmāt/.
>
> Presumably the /-t/ forms are influenced by the rule concerning 
> permitted finals (/k, ṭ, t, p, ṅ, n, m/ and /ḥ/), but I take this to 
> refer to sandhi in the context of sentence formation.
>
> Can we say whether /-d/ or /-t/ forms are original?
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
> Dr Mark Allon
>
> Chair, Dept. of Indian Subcontinental Studies
>
> The University of Sydney
>
> Australia
>
>
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