Talk:सीदति

Anyone know why this isn't sī́ḍati/sī́ḷati? User:AryamanA User:RichardW57  User:Bhagadatta User:Kutchkutch Hölderlin2019 (talk) 21:28, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

User:SodhakSH Hölderlin2019 (talk) 21:28, 15 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't think it's known. It's been suggested that the dropping of the second sibilant with compensatory lengthening was an Indo-Iranian matter, and so there was no occasion for the /d/ to become retroflex.  The corresponding Avestan form also lacks (any trace of) a second sibilant.  This suggestion comes from Ryan Sandell's 2018 paper https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/ieul/6/1/article-p117_4.xml --RichardW57 (talk) 00:29, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The Avestan form is so it's very likely that  was not the most recent common ancestor of the two words. It's some unexplained development within PIIr. -- 𝓑𝓱𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓪(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴)  09:29, 16 August 2021 (UTC)