A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c7.152
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c7.152
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§ 80. SIBILANTS IN A MIXED NEXUS.—It has been seen in Chap. III., § 66, that the sibilants when standing alone in a word are affected in two ways; on the one hand they are weakened into the aspirate, while on the other they are thickened into palatals. They exhibit precisely the same tendencies when forming part of a nexus; when they precede the other letter the transition to the aspirate is most frequently met with; when they follow it, that into the palatal.