From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 24 22:25:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-1.free.fr (postfix2-1.free.fr [213.228.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D6837B401 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 22:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-4-62-147-141-235.dial.proxad.net [62.147.141.235]) by postfix2-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89EF091 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 07:25:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 1898 invoked by uid 1001); 25 May 2002 05:25:39 -0000 Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 07:25:39 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: Marc Ramirez , Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aryan and Dravidian (was: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)) Message-ID: <20020525052539.GA1871@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020525045236.GA1722@lpt.ens.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan said on May 25, 2002 at 06:52:36: > > > "tesan." And a name like "Krishna" > > > > Wasn't that originally Krsna, with a fluid instead of a vowel? > > Yes, it should be written Krshna (the sh is one of the two Sanskrit > sh letters, And now that you mention it, "Sanskrit" too is really "Sanskrta" with no vowel after the "r", and a short "a" after the "t". And while we're on that subject :) the "l" in "Tamil" is not an "l", but a sound which doesn't have an exact equivalent in other languages (except Malayalam). It's something between an "l", an unrolled "r" and a "y" -- perhaps something like the Japanese "l/r" sound. It's sometimes transliterated "zh" in English but that's even more unlike the true sound than "l". - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message