--- Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (eg..."Mishram" is so called because mishram is > > "mixture"...it is a mixture of 4 and 3!.. and I > am unable to find out > > why Sankeernam, the word for 9, is so called...) > > interesting. Sankeernam meaning "narrow", or > "constricted"? > in Tamil what is the name for words like this which > are Sanskrit > derived and not of "local" origin? for example, in > bengali sanskrit > derived words are called "tatsama" and the more > local words > "tatbhava". 'Sankeernam' also means 'crowded' or 'dense'. In this context, perhaps that is the sense intended? 'Tatbhava' and 'tatsama' are nomenclatures used by linguistic scholars for words borrowed from old and middle 'Indo-Aryan' (Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, some intermediary Prakrits) without changes (Tatsama) and with changes (Tatbhava): they are applied to all Indian languages (including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, etc., not just Bengali. cheers, Divya
