24-02-2017, 06:06 PM
Torsten: it seems that you are inferring from the lack of -a or -o words but the abundance of -y words that -y is an orthographic variant where those same words should end with -a and -o.
I'd accept that word-initial y- could be a variant of word-initial o- , but I don't think you're going to convince anyone here that word-initial y- would replace word-initial a- in all but the very rarest of circumstances. So this is already somewhat asymmetric.
Of course, this proposed replacement scheme doesn't work for mid-word -a- or mid-word -o- instances at all, which is why it falls under the category of "orthographic", so y can be explained away as a scribal variant. :-)
But given that so many words end in -dy, are you really saying that -dy is a replacement for -do or -da? I'm not sure you've really thought that through to the end line, sorry. :-(
I'd accept that word-initial y- could be a variant of word-initial o- , but I don't think you're going to convince anyone here that word-initial y- would replace word-initial a- in all but the very rarest of circumstances. So this is already somewhat asymmetric.
Of course, this proposed replacement scheme doesn't work for mid-word -a- or mid-word -o- instances at all, which is why it falls under the category of "orthographic", so y can be explained away as a scribal variant. :-)
But given that so many words end in -dy, are you really saying that -dy is a replacement for -do or -da? I'm not sure you've really thought that through to the end line, sorry. :-(
