Is there PIE in your kamra?

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Re: Is there PIE in your kamra? #126650 03/31/2004 1:47 PM
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran
jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California	Another hint of (usually Persian) loanwords is the presence of a {z}, {f}, etc. Written with devanagri letters {j} and {ph} with dots to modify their pronunciation. One of the first signs I saw on my arrival to India written in devanagri read neshiNal baink National Bank ... (transcription from memory, may be wrong) ... As for the Hindi terms, they're all tadbhava, i.e., Sanskrit words. tadbhava tad 'that' + bhava 'being, becoming'; also tajja < tad (before a {j}) + ja 'born' ... A Sanskrit loanword (into a Prakrit language). deshaja 'country-born, native': < desha 'place, region' cf. Bangladesh 'land of the Bengals', Anglo-Indian desi 'native of India'. videshi 'snother country, foreign, abroad' < vi- 'apart, asunder' + desha.

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Is there PIE in your kamra?	sjmaxq	03/31/2004 12:10 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	belMarduk	03/31/2004 12:21 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	Buffalo Shrdlu	03/31/2004 12:33 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	sjmaxq	03/31/2004 12:37 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	Buffalo Shrdlu	03/31/2004 12:43 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	jheem	03/31/2004 1:44 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	belMarduk	03/31/2004 2:09 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	jheem	03/31/2004 3:31 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	sjmaxq	03/31/2004 3:38 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	jheem	03/31/2004 3:40 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	sjmaxq	03/31/2004 3:44 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	Passerby	03/31/2004 7:21 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	jheem	03/31/2004 1:47 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	Buffalo Shrdlu	03/31/2004 10:23 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	maahey	03/31/2004 8:35 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	jheem	03/31/2004 9:11 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	sjmaxq	03/31/2004 2:11 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	of troy	03/31/2004 3:12 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	belMarduk	03/31/2004 12:54 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	jheem	03/31/2004 1:31 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	sjmaxq	03/31/2004 7:40 PM
All I can add is:	AnnaStrophic	03/31/2004 7:50 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	RhubarbCommando	03/31/2004 8:00 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	of troy	03/31/2004 6:26 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	AlimaeHP	03/31/2004 3:11 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	raju	03/31/2004 8:49 AM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	jheem	03/31/2004 1:55 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	sjmaxq	03/31/2004 7:36 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	jheem	03/31/2004 8:09 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	maahey	03/31/2004 8:27 PM
Re: Is there PIE in your kamra?	jheem	03/31/2004 9:27 PM
Re: an obscurantist writes....	maverick	04/01/2004 8:50 AM
Re: an obscurantist writes....	belMarduk	04/01/2004 4:28 PM
Ghazals and Bambayya	shanks	04/01/2004 6:36 PM

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