Guest guest Posted June 17, 2002 Report Share Posted June 17, 2002 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. > >Does anyone on this list have a couple favorites that are easily graspable by >a general readership? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2002 Report Share Posted June 17, 2002 > Does anyone on this list have a couple favorites that are easily graspable by > 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2002 Report Share Posted June 17, 2002 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: > > Hello, > > 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. > > Does anyone on this list have a couple favorites that are easily graspable by > a general readership? > > > Brian > > > -------------------- > BrianDanaAkers.com > sfauthor > fax 586-283-4680 > > > > > indology > > > > Your use of is subject to > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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