namaste,
I wrote:
> Therefore "soma" can be split as
>"sa" + "uma" ("a" + "u" = "o") or "accompanying uma".
I'm sorry, I think I jumped the gun here. In the above sandhi, the word
would be "umaa" and not "uma", since Devi is "umaa".
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Aniruddhan