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Re: noun forms of verbs

From:William Annis <annis@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 14:05
 >From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
 >
 >You could have some restrictions like the ones of Ancient Greek,
 >where words could only have one aspirated consonnant,

        Isn't this an I.E. trait?  IIRC, Sanskrit has the same
aversion to multiple aspirates nestling too closely, though this seems
not to apply in noun declensions (see p. 50 of [1]): phalaabhyaam,
etc.  The perfect of /bhr[2] does show the aversion, though.

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[1] http://sanskrit.gde.to/learning_tutorial_wikner/wikner.ps
[2] http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/SANSKRIT/v-perfct.htm