A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c6.83
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c6.83
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In other positions, however, aya not unfrequently becomes aä by simple elision of the y; examples are jaä=jaya, jâä=jâyâ, aäso=ayaśas, raä=rayas. In these cases it was probably pronounced as j, just as it is in the present day in many parts of India. In the moderns no such process as this is to be found.