The First Person Singular of the Athematic Middle Optative in Vedic and Indo-Iranian
In the first person singular of the athematic middle optative in the R̥ gveda, there is strong metrical evidence that the poets knew and used forms in *-iy-a along- side the morphologically regular forms in -īy-a. I argue that the forms in *-iy-a are older and developed from PIE *-ih1-h2e by regular...
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American Oriental Society
2022
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JAOS
Year: 2022, Volume: 142, Issue: 2, Pages: 251-266 |
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