Dr John's speech during GP made me realize that, ignoring the quantitative aspect, the first sounds of Sanskrit alphabet, namely a (aa) i (ii) u (uu) and R, actually (almost) form a sandhi variant of the word 'aayus' (as in aayur-veda; in pausa 'aayuH'). That's because when 'i' is followed by another vowel, it changes to its semi-vowel counterpart which in English is written as 'y' , as in 'yes'. (For instance in Scandinavian languages, including the non- Indo-European Finnish, that semi-vowel is written as 'j'. That's why Swedes tend to pronounce 'John', which is, I believe, a Swedish name, too, as 'Yonn'.)
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