A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.121

v2.c12.121

§ 5. The influence of the accent is only claimed for the early Tadbhava class, and it is natural therefore that there should be many instances in which it does not apply. Seeing that there are among the late Tadbhavas many which approach closely in point of antiquity to the latest of the early Tadbhavas, the line is hard to draw. We merely give examples therefore of these exceptions, and wish for explanation as to why, if the stems in â-o are due to the addition of क, that suffix has not been used here also. Many of the words now given appear, from their phonetic structure, to be early Tadbhavas, as for instance दूध, which exhibits the Prakrit process of assimilation from दुग्ध into दुग्धो, and the modern further elimination of the first element of the nexus and compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.