A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c6.46
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c6.46
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प seldom stops short at ब. It would appear that ब itself differed very little in sound from व in most parts of India. प therefore modulates into व, and still further into उ, and sometimes combines with a preceding *a* or *ā* into ओ, or औ. Thus: