A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c5.65

v1.c5.65

In the example ukkero we have not an instance of the influence of the i or y on a preceding vowel, if Vararuchi be right in deriving it from उत्कर; but this is doubtful. The root is कृ kri, “to cast,” and we might perhaps refer the Prakrit word to a form such as utkiraṇam. In the modern languages we find as follows:—