Talk:आहे

@Kutchkutch Sindhi has some interesting connections to Marathi it seems. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 21:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@AryamanA: Yes, the similarities are surprising since Sindh and Maharashtra are not adjacent. Marathi is sometimes classified as "Western Indo-Aryan" since there are "areal similarities" with Gujarati and Sindhi even though there's no Middle Indo-Aryan common ancestor. There's many Sindhi speakers in Maharashtra and there were many Marathi-speakers in Karachi before the Partition. According to Sindhi language#Phonology, it has /mʱ/, /nʱ/, /l̪ʱ/ (and maybe /ɾʱ/) just like Marathi. Even though Sindhi is an official language of India, it doesn't appear receive much attention probably since no part of Sindh in in India.

For the etymology, Turner 1031 āˊkṣēti is confusing

"In most of the areas invaded by acch -- , ākh -- remained in the form āh -- , ah -- , h...In S. and L. too āh -- is prob. < ākh --...the present tense points to *ākhē -- : S. ã̄hĭ̄ni"

Tulpule has आति and आथि as the Old Marathi equivalent of 3rd person आहे. Kutchkutch (talk) 09:17, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

@Kutchkutch: Areal influence has created many interesting parallels across the subcontinent. The etymologies of the "to be" verbs and copulas in Indo-Aryan are very complicated; usually, many verbal paradigms have been merged into one. I remember reading a paper discussing and rebutting Turner's ākṣeti etymology, I'll find it and add its claims when I get the chance. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 23:56, 12 May 2018 (UTC)