A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c5.92

v1.c5.92

Here we see the result of the Prakrit habit of eliding the single consonant and replacing it by य, so that we get kayali, chhayala, bayara, which, as in the case of नयन and similar words, is contracted into e. Bengali shows the word still in a transitional stage. The rules regulating the treatment of those vowels which are brought into juxtaposition by the elision of an intervening consonant are exhibited in § 46.