Bhante Sujato Pali Course 2023: Warder lesson 4

[johnk]

@acala

I was wondering why there is deseti and desayati? DPD has them both… and they seem to mean the same thing and come from the same root dis.

I don’t know the historical, linguistic reasons why this is so, but it seems that all the verbs that end in -eti have an alternative version ending in -ayati. It probably stems from gradual sound change. Say desayati to yourself over and over, getting faster and faster, and you might notice it starts to sound like deseti.