--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mar 12, 2005, at 3:24 PM, off_world_beings wrote: > > > > > Whoa. This 'vacaa' has to be the root or related to 'vaccum', > since > > > Latin has so much other Sanskrit in it, and Latin always seems to > > > add a 'um' or 'us' on the end. > > > Is this a Sanskrit word? 'Vaacaa'? > > > > In the Latin languages the Sanskrit "Vac" becomes Vox or Voce > (It.) or > > Voice (Eng.). > > > > Really? > Wow, even better ! Thanks. Amazing. > > What about the word, 'word'? > In some parts of England old english pronounciation (pronounciation > that may go far back to Kelt and Gallish languages , which came from > Sanskrit, with the Kelts Westward streams of expansion from > Afghanistan Pakistan region), is still common in many words. > Those speakers would for example speak out from from the Bible were > they to speak it out: "In the beggining was the Wed" , > pronounced exactly as Maharishi and many Hindus pronounce 'VED'.
I seem to recall that's because Sanskrit 'v' represents an earlier (Proto-Indo-European?) u-sound. Sometimes in Vedic resitation the 'v' in the written text is actually pronounced as an 'u', like in 'look'(I guess; have no idea how each of FfL'ers pronounces the word 'look'...). For instance Rgveda I 35 1, the first line is written like this: hvayaami agniM prathamaM svastaye (I call Agni first for welfare) But the last word (for welfare: svastaye) is pronounced, according to A.A.Macdonell, like 'suastaye'(soo-astaye?). That's the dative singular case form of 'svasti' which is sandhi for 'su' (well) + 'asti' (being). > > It must be a shock for a Hindu to hear someone with this English > accent speak this sentance out from the Bible. > I don't think there is a connection between 'Ved' and 'word', but I > am not totally sure. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
