Aryans in the Rigveda

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A study of the language, and particularly of the foreign words, in the Rigveda. PDF reprocessed from open book landscape scan at https://archive.org/details/AryansInTheRigvedaKuiperF.B.J. which contains on the left side of several pages image distortion owing to contortion of the paper original, the worst affected being print page 66, which has been reconstructed as best as may be. Front Cover ......Page 1 Title Page ......Page 3 Printer's imprint ......Page 4 Preface ......Page 5 Contents ......Page 7 I. Introduction ......Page 9 1. Linguistic Substratum ......Page 17 2. Foreign Cultural Influences ......Page 22 3. Sociological Evidence ......Page 28 2. Phonology II: Vowels ......Page 30 3. Phonology III: Consonants ......Page 32 4. Morphology I: Prefixes ......Page 47 5. Morphology II: Infixes ......Page 52 6. Morphology III: Suffixes ......Page 53 8.Syntax ......Page 55 2. d > r AND d : d ......Page 56 3. Surds, Sonants, and Aspirates ......Page 57 4. Geminates ......Page 59 5. The 'intrusive' r and r ......Page 78 6. -an-/-rn- And 'intrusive' r Before n ......Page 87 7. Dissimulation ......Page 93 V. Foreign Elements in Rigvedic Vocabulary ......Page 97 VI. Epilogue and Conclusion ......Page 102 VII. References ......Page 105 VIII. Index of Sanskrit Words ......Page 114 IX. Abbreviated Titles of Sanskrit Works ......Page 123