Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 07:25:39 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, 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> In-Reply-To: <20020525045236.GA1722@lpt.ens.fr>
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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
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