semi-tatsama

plural semi-tatsamas · alternative semitatsama

1. Indo Aryan linguisticshuman sciencesA semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit.

   Initial v can also go back to Pkt. v, arisen either from Skr. vr in vaṇ (vraṇa-) and the semi-tatsama vaḍvat (vrata-)...

   1970, J. Bloch, Formation of the Marathi Language, page 160

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   It will be interesting to note how persistent is the Prakritic or MIA. system of phonetics in NIA., in giving a tadbhava look to recently introduced tatsama words, in pronunciation, and turning them into semi-tatsamas going very close to tadbhavas, actually existing or possible,—although the spelling would scorn to note it:[…]

   1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, page 200

   In New Indo-Aryan currency the tadbhava and semitatsama forms of yakṣa and yakṣiṉī have come to mean demon and demoness, goblin or malevolent spirits of some kind.

   1972, Jacob Ensink, Peter Gaeffke, editors, India Maior: Congratulatory Volume Presented to J. Gonda, page 194

   The tripartite scheme of tadhbava, semi-tatsama, and tatsama accounts for the majority of the words encountered in the texts included in this book; but loans from Persian and from Arabic (through Persian) are also commonplace, especially in texts which are not self-consciously based on Sanskrit models.

   2001, Rupert Snell, The Hindi Classical Tradition: A Braj Bhāṣā Reader, page 4