A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c5.13

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§ 32. अ into इ.¹ This change does not occur so frequently or in the same way in the modern languages as it does in Prakrit or Pali. Of the examples given in Vararuchi (Pr. Pr. i. 3), *isi*, *pikkam*, *siviṇo*, *vediso*, *viano*, *muingo*, *ingâlo*, for Skr. *īṣat*, *pakva*, *svapna*, *vetasa*, *vya jana*, *mṛdaṅga*, *aṅgāra*, very few are found in modern tongues. G. has पिकवुं but also पक्ववुं, and इंगारो but also and more commonly अंगारो; M. पिकणें, पिक, etc. All the other words, in so far as they are used at all in a Tadbhava form, retain the *a* in all cases.