Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c10.37

c10.37

∗ These vriddhi forms appear to be due to the penultimate अ being pronounced long through the accent according to the usual rule and by the combination of इ or उ with it; so that the combined sound is अइ and अउ. When the lengthened अ becomes आ it overpowers the final इ and this latter is dropped and we have मे करां Chit. or हांव करां Goan. ‘I do or used to do’, just as in घोडउ ‘a horse’ the penultimate is lengthened into आ and the final उ is dropped and we have घोडा.