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Difficulties of Sanskrit drapsá- ‘drop’ from Proto-Indo-European *dherebh- / *dhrebh-(so-): ‘analogical (original) ps’?

Dr.

Mirushe Hoxha,

Faculty of Philology “Blaze Konseki,” “Ss. Cyril and Methodius University” (UKIM), North Macedonia

The second opinion of Mayrhofer (1992, pp.

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754-755) on Sanskrit (Skr.) drapsá- differs from his first opinion on this word (1963, pp. 71-72). In his second etymology, Mayrhofer (1992, ibid.) traces back the original meanings of Skr. drapsá- to Proto-Indo-European (PIE.) *dreb- ‘to tremble, quiver’; under one condition, Avestan (Av.) drafša-, the equivalent of Skr.

drapsá-, is from PIE. *dreb- as well (ibid., p. 754). This marks the scholar’s withdrawal of his first opinion on the different meanings of Skr. drapsá- from more than one older root, its meaning ‘drop’ from PIE.

*dhrebh-so- (Mayr