The Future Stem in Aśoka

The normal suffix of the future in Sanskrit was -syá-. The root had full grade, e.g. kartsyáti, jeṣyāti. It follows that in the futures of dissyllabic (seṭ) roots the suffix was preceded by i (< IE. ә), e.g. jani-ṣyāti, bhavi-ṣyāti. Even monosyllabic (aniṭ) roots ending in -r (-ͬ) had an i between the root and the suffix, e.g. mar-i-ṣyáti. The Ŗgveda adheres to this division except for one apparent exception, asiṣyát-, fut. part, of ásyati. But, despite ástra- and astá-, ásyati perhaps contains a dissyllabic root **esē(i) (cf. ásira- ' ray '). Of this ásy-ati (which, as a transitive verb, probably does not contain the suffix -ye- of the intransitives of the type táp-yati) and ásira show full grade in the first syllable; á-sát ' he has slain ' and sāy-aka- ' javelin ' show full grade in the second syllable. In that case asi-ṣyá should be analysed like jani-ṣyá

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