Max Müller has in his editions (London 1849 and Leipzig 1856) in 1.1.4c
gacchati.
L.
On 18.10.2023 22:22, Hock, Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY wrote:
My 2¢ worth:
Whatever the motivation may be for the spelling with a single <ch> in
the Rig Veda (and let’s keep in mind that the “real” Rig Veda is oral),
the syllable preceding <ch> in forms like /gachati /‘goes’ is heavy, not
light, indicating that we are dealing with cluster or geminate ([cch] or
the like); compare RV 1.1.4c /sá íd devéṣu gachati/ in an iambic
cadence. Has anybody looked at old MSS of the Rig Veda to see whether in
indigenous scripts forms like /ga(c)chati/ are written with छ or with च्छ
(or their equivalents)?
All the best,
Hans Henrich
On Oct 18, 2023, at 15:06, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you everybody. This was sent to me by Michael Witzel and I
don't think he would mind if I share it.
a long and bit complicated story:
Panini’s doubling of ch- and cases like icchati ,gacchati. pṛcchati
all go back to Indo-European *sk’
as in chāyā/shadow, Dutch schaduw {pronounced s-kh) or Latin posco =
pṛcha-
This RV WRITES only ch in gachati but the meter shows that it is a
double consonant. Which?
[[[(there are 2 cases of -khkh- in RV, trying to remember. Maybe just
a fluke of Maharastrian spelling)See below.]]]
Kaṭha Samhita (and Kashmir spelling in general) seem to have preserved
the old pronunciation; they write : gaśchati etc. (Kerala has -cs- I
believe) (See my Veda InKashmir)
This shows why chāyā etc. has double consonant (cch in Panini’s
area?) in Sandhi as per Panini.
So Whitney’s Roots with ichati reflects the RV spelling.
You can also check in the first volume of Wackernagel, Altindische
Grammatik (1895) with some data.
Hope this mess is cleared up a bit.
========= on khkh: in our SARVA
Dictionary:http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/sarva/entrance.html
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RV akhkhalī-(kṛ'tyā), 'the sound of frogs in the rainy season', which
Thieme, Kleine Schriften 138, takes as 'producing syllables (akṣara)',
see M. Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindorarischen,
1986: 44. -- However, note K. Hoffmann, Aufsätze zur Indoiranistik,
1975: 176 who takes it as an interjection. Note also that the sound
combination -khkh- is not allowed in Indo-Aryan. The old RV word
therefore represents an onomatopetic imitation of frogs that has
survived, like many other onomatopoetica (see bal-bal) without the
expected sound changes from Vedic to Modern IA
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 12:10 PM Agnes Korn <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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Dear all,
If I remember correctly, there are different manuscriptal etc.
traditions as for the notation of "ch" or "cch / chch". As there
is no opposition of ch or cch, one can write one or the other.
Whitney perhaps chose "ch" for brevity.
As ch / cch / chch makes the syllable heavy (i.e. is treated like
a consonant group), a notation "cch / chch" is clearer than ch,
but of course the well-versed know that "ch" counts as a consonant
group ;-)
Best wishes,
Agnes
Le 18.10.2023 à 05:39, alakendu das via INDOLOGY a écrit :
Mr. Spier,
I can cite an instance . We take the word"/ICCHA" /( wish or desire).
Here, we have doubling of "/Ch" /after a short or long vowel .
Regards
Alakendu Das.
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Subject: [INDOLOGY] Whitney and doubling of "ch"
Dear list members,
Whitney in his grammar section 227 says about the doubling of
"*ch*".
"As a general rule *ch* is not to be allowed by the grammarians
to stand in that form after vowels but is to be doubled becoming
*cch* (which in the manuscripts is sometimes written *chch*). .
.According to Panini *ch* is to be doubled within a word after a
long or a short vowel."
But if you look in his "Roots, Verb-forms and Derivatives" at the
entry for *iṣ, ich * nowhere does he double "*ch*" not even
after a short vowel rather he has*i**chati, ichaka,*
* ichā* and*ichu * . Does anyone know why for this root in all
his examples he didn't double *ch* after vowels?
Thanks,
Harry Spier
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