On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 19:57, Deepa Mohan<[email protected]> wrote: > mode of address for them...there was "Aryaputra" for husband, "thAthshree" > for grandfather, "mAtAshree", and even "bhrAtAshree"....but nothing for > sisters. So I dug a little into Sanskrit, and only got the word "bhagini" > for sister...and perhaps, "anuja" ("born-along-with")...which describes any
0. anti (f) an elder sister 1. antikA (f) an elder sister in theatrical language - perhaps a corruption of "attikA"? 2. atti (f) elder sister - the root for attikA? some languages use this term of address for the father's sister Aatya in Marathi and athai in Tamil. 3. sahaja (mf) born or produced together. 4. sahodara/sahodarI (mf) born of the same womb 5. sodara : same as #4. IIRC, this word occurs in a kannada carnatic song so i'm not sure if its used as a term of address for sisters. Ok, here is the anupallavi : sodara mavana madhurelli madhuhita, yashoda kanda ni baro -- its from yadava nee baa [raagam: karnataka devagandhari] -- .
