Meaning of semi-tatsama | Babel Free

Definitions

A semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit.

Indo-Aryan-linguistics

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Examples

“It will be interesting to note⟳ how persistent is the Prakritic or MIA. system of phonetics in NIA., in giving a tadbhava look⟳ to recently introduced tatsama words, in pronunciation, and turning them into semi-tatsamas going very close⟳ to tadbhavas, actually existing or possible,—although the spelling would scorn to note⟳ it:[…]”

“Initial v can also go back to Pkt. v, arisen either from Skr. vr in vaṇ (vraṇa-) and the semi-tatsama vaḍvat (vrata-)...”

“In New Indo-Aryan currency the tadbhava and semitatsama forms of yakṣa and yakṣiṉī have⟳ come⟳ to mean⟳ demon and demoness, goblin or malevolent spirits of some kind.”

“The tripartite scheme of tadhbava, semi-tatsama, and tatsama accounts for the majority of the words encountered in the texts included in this book; but loans from Persian and from Arabic (through Persian) are also commonplace, especially in texts which are not self-consciously based on Sanskrit models.”

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