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smRti and memory.

 

Dr Valerie J Roebuck

Manchester, UK

 

Brian <sfauthor wrote:

 

>I had a discussion earlier this week in which the topic of cognates between

>Sanskrit and English popped up. The only one that came to mind at the time

>was murti/morph.

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>Does anyone on this list have a couple favorites that are easily graspable by

>a general readership?

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> Does anyone on this list have a couple favorites that are easily graspable

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> a general readership?

> Brian

 

prthvi/flat

The following three examples constitute "intimate vocabulary", which "is

more likely to be intinsic than acquired" (See Kochhar Vedic People,

2000,page 141).

guda/gut; fart/pardate; vanisthu/anus

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The PIE (Proto-Indo-European) website should be ideal for your purposes:

 

http://colfa.utsa.edu/drinka/pie/pie.html

 

 

 

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 Sfauthor wrote:

 

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> I had a discussion earlier this week in which the topic of cognates between

> Sanskrit and English popped up. The only one that came to mind at the time

> was murti/morph.

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> Does anyone on this list have a couple favorites that are easily graspable by

> a general readership?

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> Brian

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