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Douglas G. Kilday  
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 More options Feb 15 2006, 4:28 pm
Newsgroups: humanities.language.sanskrit, sci.lang
From: "Douglas G. Kilday" <fufl...@chorus.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:28:56 -0000
Local: Wed, Feb 15 2006 4:28 pm
Subject: Re: Skt mukta Etymology
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"Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@worldnet.att.net> wrote ...

> Andrew Dalby wrote:

> > [...]

> > Peter, you were afraid someone would say this, I'm sure. According to
> > Turner's /Comparative dictionary of IA languages/ (item 10152) mukta-
> > is a learned Sanskritization of the Middle Indo-Aryan mutta- (both with
> > macron over the a). The latter is apparently a loan from a Dravidian
> > language (Tamil muttu and muruntu 'etc.' are cited, with a reference to
> > Burrow's /Dravidian etymological dictionary/.

> Aha! A hypercorrection!

> (You could write a-macron (long a) as either a: or aa, or even â if that
> doesn't have any other meaning in Indic studies.)

> > Another example of similar Sanskritization is (I believe) srngavera
> > 'ginger', constructed in learned late Sanskrit on the basis of
> > Pali/Prakrit singivera, which actually didn't derive from Sanskrit but
> > appears to be a Dravidian loanword.

> Another hypercorrection!

Paretymological assimilation to <s'rn'ga-> 'horn, antler', on the basis of
fanciful resemblance of the shape of the ginger-root to an antler.

 
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