Re: shirt in Hindi

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > If the book gives you enough insight to notice a phonological rule
> > whereby Hindi /a/ is /@/ in Avestan, I'd be most interested in what
the
> > rule is. For example, Hindi garam has one /a/ and one /@/ in
Avestan
> > but I haven't been able to figure out what, if any, rule governs
> > whether a Hindi a would be /a/ or /@/ in Avestan.
>
> Why would you expect to find direct, regular correspondences between
> languages that are thousands of years apart?

Isn't it claimed that most phonetic change is regular?

http://bartleby.school.aol.com/186/8.html
.... even at this late day the English series of initial consonants:
p t k
b d g
f th h
corresponds point for point to the Sanskrit series:
b d g
bh dh gh
p t k

> What is the Vedic form of that word, and how does the Hindi form
relate
> to it?

It's a Persian word, I think. I've seen it once in Avestan; it was
either gar@m or g@ram plus an inflection.

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