A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c5.82
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c5.82
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v1.c5.82
This process, which is irregular and capricious, resembles our own English habit of turning a (आ) into e (ए); thus, we pronounce cane as केण, male as मेल, rate as रेत, instead of काण, माल,राट, as do all other European nations.² The e in the modern Indian languages is never short, as in Prakrit, but is constantly long.