parindāmi (9062)

parindāmi
Entry 9062, Page 326, Col. 1

(parindAmi, parindAmi)
parindāmi¦ (also parī°, anu-par°, qq.v.; peculiar to BHS; formation unexplained, see below), I present, hand over: °āmi SP 410.10; 484.5; LV 443.9 (Lefm. paridāmy, read with v.l. parind°); ppp. parindita, see Parinditārtha, and Pargiter ap. Hoernle MR p. 179, where parindita is read for parī° Vaj 20.4, 10. Could nasalized vowel -in- (-iṃ) be a substitute by the ‘law of Morae’ for parī-dāmi (cf. ppp. parītta), and the forms with parīnd° be blends? Not satisfactory. But parī- occurs for pari-. Dr. Paul Tedesco would derive by the Morengesetz from *pariddāmi for paridadāmi with loss of -a-; as a parallel he cites Skt. ujjhāmi etc., which he also derives directly from uj-jahāmi with loss of -a-. That ujjh- is somehow derived from ud plus root hā, few will doubt; but I am not sure that this is the precise way (for a different one see Uhlenbeck s.v.); and I should like other examples of such loss of -a-.