Questions tagged [sanskrit]
For questions about Sanskrit, the Ancient Classical language of Northern India.
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In Sanskrit a living language according to this definition?
Opinions differ on whether Sanskrit is a living language. If we define a living language as one in which new coinages become widespread among its users (and not just its learners), is it living?
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Why is Devanagari currently used for Sanskrit?
Sanskrit was originally an oral language. It began to be written in the Brahmi script and then over time, most of the Brahmi-derived scripts, Gupta, Siddham, Nagari, Devanagari, Purvi Nagari etc. were ...
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removing visarg in sanskrit sandhi
I have understood this example of visarg sandhi.
पुनः + रमते = पुना रमते
As per this page:
https://knowledgegallery.in/visarg-sandhi-in-sanskrit/
‘रो रि’। यदि विसर्ग (:) से पहले स्वर हो और उसके (वि...
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Oxford/Cambridge Sanskrit Book
A few years ago I came across a book on Sanskrit (not a dictionary, not a grammar book, not a book on Sanskrit literature( that belonged to the "Classical Language Series" from either Oxford ...
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Origin of ratchasap/ราชาศัพท์ phenomenon in Thai and/or Tai-kadai languages
I am attempting to trace the origin of "rachasap" (Thai: ราชาศัพท์; Lao: ລາດຊະຊັບ).
What is "rachasap"?
Rachasap is an entire body of words that are used with deity, royalty, or ...
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What happened to Aham and its derivatives in Marathi?
The Sanskrit first person pronoun अहम् (Romanized: Aham) can be found in Maharashtri Prakrit as 𑀅𑀳𑀁 (ahaṃ), 𑀅𑀳𑀅𑀁 (ahaaṃ), 𑀳𑀁 (haṃ).
It is even present in some languages derivative of ...
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How to deal with modern Indian people's first names and surnames when declining in Sanskrit?
I have a question about how to deal with people's names when using Sanskrit in a modern context.
Let's say I want to say "Ãnanda is in the forest", I can say वन आनन्दः. Ignoring any possible ...
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What did the injunctive mood of Sanskrit do?
I have read that Vedic Sanskrit had five grammatical moods a verb could take; indicative, optative, imperative, subjunctive, and injunctive; four of them I understand the function of through other ...
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Is Sanskrit the origin of every language [duplicate]
I tried to search everywhere but i couldn't find anything about my question. So i wanna ask in this site because i think this site can help me. The thing i wanna ask is Is Sanskrit the origin of all ...
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Reason for visarga turning to [o] in sandhi
Is there a reason for the visarga (अः, or अस्/अर्) changing to an [o] (ओ) sound before voiced consonants or अ in Sanskrit as a part of external sandhi? For example, as an example from ...
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Where does the word 'Aranyam' (Sanskrit) derive from?
Aranyam basically means a forest / jungle.
Where does the word 'Aranyam' (Sanskrit) derive from?
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I searched online but couldn't find any references for the word except a Hungarian word ...
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Possible Sanskrit word "pas" as declension case [closed]
I would like to ask if it is possible that the word pas, which I think could be a Sanskrit word, is a declined case of an existing word (e.g. the nominative or vocative case).
If not, could it be a ...
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Why does Proto-Indo-Aryan *ẓ seem to have different outcomes despite sharing the same phonological context?
It is well known that Proto-Indo-Aryan *s had an allophone *z in voiced contexts. Due to some phonetic changes (i.e. RUKI law and the shift *śt > ṣṭ), they both could undergo retroflexion, thus ...
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what does devanagari "RTSNY" (a conjunct consonent) look like? and what frequently used words (if any) does it occur in?
I was researching different writing systems when I came across a fact about Devanagari. the conjunct consonants of the script are fascinating yet confusing; evidently some of them may combine up to 5 ...
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What commonly used words, if any, does devanagari "म्क्ब्श" (mkbsha) actually occur in?
I was researching different writing systems when I came across a fact about Devanagari. the conjunct consonants of the script are fascinating yet confusing; evidently some of them may combine up to 5 ...
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Declension of Sanskrit words "kil" and "kila"
I have been using this search engine for Sanskrit grammar: https://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/grammar.html, specifically declension, and I was wondering about some results returned by the search.
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Japanese terms from Sanskrit
This question started when I learned that "hannya haramita" (般若波羅蜜多) comes from Sanskrit "prajñā pāramitā" (प्रज्ञापारमिता). It is not hard to see that what was /p/ in Sanskrit ...
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Is Panini's grammar regular in the same sense as that present in the Chomsky hierarchy?
Panini's grammar is said to have algebraic rules governing every aspect of the Sanskrit language. If the rules are completely formal, what is the place of this grammar in the Chomsky hierarchy? How ...
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Resources for self learning Sanskrit? [closed]
I wanted to self-thought learn Sanskrit, but I don't find any reliable resource available online. The only way I can learn is online and through self-through. It's physically impossible for me to find ...
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Prefix a(n)- in Sanskrit and English
In learning about the three Buddhist marks of existence - referred to by the Sanskrit words anatman (lack of permanent self), anitya (impermanence) and dukkha (suffering) - I was interested to learn ...
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echo/doubling of consonants in sanskrit
I've notice that whenever people in india pronounce a sanskrit word where one syllable ends in a consonant and following syllable starts with a consonant, they tend to double up one of the consonant.
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Are there traces of lost PIE laryngeals in Sanskrit?
I read on wiki that
"Hittite retains laryngeals that disappeared entirely in Sanskrit (but left plenty of traces showing that it must once have existed).
In Proto-Indo-Iranian, the laryngeals ...
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questions regarding satemisation in sanskrit
I have some questions regarding satemisation in sanskrit.
why there are still k in sanskrit if pie k tunred into sanskrit s ? It seems to me that pie *kʷ turned into k in sanskrit. is that right ? If ...
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How do we know that Mitanni Indo-Aryan loan words are derived from Proto-Indo-Aryan and not Vedic Sanskrit?
This question is similer to my previous question.
I came across a person who makes the following claims:
The names of Previous Kings of Mitannis that are mentioned on inscriptions belongs to period ...
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Where did the Sanskrit language originate from?
Where did the Sanskrit language originate from?
Did it originate from Persia or Greece?
Where did Sanskrit evolve into a classic language: India or Persia or Greece?
Origin of Sanskrit
The above ...
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How do we know that Avestan is sister of Vedic Sanskrit and not its daughter?
I am new here and to linguistics. Recently I have developed a passion and an interest for linguistics, but I am not familiar with it.
So I got into debate with a person from India. He was claiming ...
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Does the root word mus- in Latin mean "thief"'? Mouse=thief, Moses=Extractor etc
I first got the idea of Latin mus- = mouse = thief from this list
My primary question here is whether someone can confirm this, because I have not found any direct words in Latin that indicates that ...
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What is the reason of this alternation?
The second case is similiar to e-grade / zero-grade ablaut.
Is it possible to find out the place of a stress here?
For use:
वसति vásati
वर्धति várdhati
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Historically, did the Sanskrit alphabet contain two 'la' consonants?
Historically, did the Sanskrit alphabet (varnamala) contain two 'la' consonants (vyanjan varnas)? It seems there was one in the 'ya' series (varga) and another one in the 'sha' series.
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Algorithms used for identifying the syllables in a Sanskrit word
Could anyone give a reference to the best book or website for learning the algorithms used for identifying the syllables in a Sanskrit word, in a completely unambiguous way, just from a piece of text? ...
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The various forms of the Sanskrit word 'Para'?
I came across the word 'Paratpara' and found the meaning to be 'Greatest of the Great'. This led me to try and understand it in relation with other similar words I already knew - paraspara(mutual) and ...
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What is the frequency of Devanagari signs in Sanskrit?
I've been searching everywhere to find the frequency of Devanagari's signs (including the sign in a conjunct) in a typical Sanskrit text. I found the frequency of Devanagari conjuncts here and there ...
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Does any Sanskrit noun stem end in e ए?
Sanskrit nouns stems ending in dipthongs are very rare but I could still find examples of at least one stem each ending in every dipthong except e ए.
ऐ ai - रै rai
ओ o - गो go
औ au - नौ nau
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Is Indra grammatically irregular?
I came across this on http://sanskritdictionary.com/:
kubera kuberaḥ, yakṣarāṭ, yakṣendraḥ, yakṣeśvaraḥ, tryambakasakhā, guhyakeśvaraḥ, manuṣyadharmā, dhanadaḥ, dhanādhipaḥ, kinnareśaḥ, vaiśravaṇaḥ, ...
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Is it possible in Sanskrit to distinguish between the names Rāma and Rām i.e. राम and राम् when used in a sentence?
Consider this sentence:
रामो लेखन्या लिखति
Is रामो in that sentence always referring to someone named राम (Rāma) or could it be equally possible that the person's name was राम् (Rām)? Are names like ...
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Sanskrit consonant clusters
I thought it'd be fairly easy to find a list of Sanskrit consonant clusters online, but the last hour or so has proved me wrong. There's information out there about how to write conjoined consonants ...
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Is Sanskrit 100% phonetic?
Even though many languages are still written in Devanagari, they have a problem of schwa deletion. But that problem doesn't exist in Sanskrit. I know that almost all languages have phonetic ...
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What is meant by the term 'genitive of appurtenance'
In his Sanskrit Grammar, William Dwight Whitney describes the uses of the genitive case in Sanskrit and he mentions the 'genitive of possession or appurtenance':
The genitive in its normal ...
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Why are there so many 'a' sounds in Sanskrit?
I noticed that in Sanskrit (as well as in many Indo-Aryan languages), the vowel /a/ appears much more frequently than any other vowel. Many words have only have /a/ as a vowel.
Is there any reason ...
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why the number of phonemes for speaking and alphabet for writing (वर्णों की कुल संख्या) in 'Sanskrit' language is fixed and specific?
In the given below sentences the word,
'sound' means any sound wave. I am not asking/talking about the meaning of that sound. That sound can be meaningless too.
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Modern Thai writing system and modern Khmer writing system and the sharing of Non-Sanskrit symbols
I understand that both old and modern Khmer and old and modern Thai, effected one another and share lots of words or "roots" of words.
For example
Modern Thai words derived from Old Khmer
ឆ្លាតor ...
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How to transliterate Devanagari into Brahmi (mainly, diacritics)
I have been messing around with converting a large Devanagari Sanskrit text to Brahmi using a simple mapping function. There is also this table showing how most of the characters map. I found one that ...
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What is the sound for ज्ञ in Sanskrit? [closed]
Wikipedia has this:
ɟɲ ज्ञ jñ roughly like argue
But those 3 writings all conflict with one another, so what is the correct pronunciation?
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Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
Hindus believe that "Sanskrit is the mother of all Languages".
It is a fact that Sanskrit has enriched most Indian Languages including the Dravidian Languages such as Telugu, as Latin enriched some ...
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Why are Latin and Sanskrit called dead languages?
I hear Latin and Sanskrit are called dead languages. Sanskrit is used in rituals and at the temples.
I think this is also true of Latin.
What is the cause of their degradation when they have enriched ...
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Is Latin "ulula" cognate with hindi उल्लू ("ullu")?
Hindi उल्लू /ʊl.luː/ (derived from Sanskrit उलूक /uluːka/) appears superficially very similar to Latin ulula (both meaning "owl"). Are these words cognate?
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Standardized and ambiguity-free language
Is there exist a language (the natural or the constructed one) with a completely standardized and ambiguity-free rules, and which is suitable for the modern use?
I am wondering for a language which ...
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Do Old Indian words with voiceless aspirated stops have cognates in other branches of Indogermanic?
Inspired by this answer I have this question: Do Old Indic (Vedic, Sankrit) words beginning with a voiceless aspirated stop (like ph, th, or kh) have cognates in other branches of Indogermanic? What ...
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Possible absolute synonymy in PIE for 'night'?
I recently came across this post (question attached). But this rule seems to struggle once it comes to the Sanskrit - Indo-Aryan side of the family (PIE) , for example ratri in Sanskrit and raat in ...
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Given a name in sanskrit, how to find what to call the son or daughter of that person. What is the grammatical rule for forming such words? [closed]
Example:-
Kunti-- Kauntey
anjana-- aanjane
What are the rules
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