07-23-2007, 02:30 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Yes, people have mentioned the etymological difficulty of deriving rAThauD from Skt rAShTrakUTa. However, there are records which describe the latter as rAShTrayodha. Hence, we have rAShTrakUTa = rAShTrayodha>rAThauD which follows a Middle Indo-Aryan formation.
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Actually, RAThoD/RAThauD is rather derived from rAShTrakUTa:
rAShTrakUTa > Initial MIA forms rATThakUDa, rAThakUDa > Advanced MIA forms rATha-UDa=rAThauDa > modern NIA forms rAThauD>rAThoD (loss of final -a)
The dental -dh- in -yodha will immediately pose difficulties when:
1. becoming a retroflex (-dh- > -Dh-)
2. then losing its aspirate (-Dh- > -D-)
without obvious reasons
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Actually, RAThoD/RAThauD is rather derived from rAShTrakUTa:
rAShTrakUTa > Initial MIA forms rATThakUDa, rAThakUDa > Advanced MIA forms rATha-UDa=rAThauDa > modern NIA forms rAThauD>rAThoD (loss of final -a)
The dental -dh- in -yodha will immediately pose difficulties when:
1. becoming a retroflex (-dh- > -Dh-)
2. then losing its aspirate (-Dh- > -D-)
without obvious reasons