@Konkanist was just a thought, as the semantic shift of √dam seems drastic to me. there's also Skt. √div/dīv, to cast/throw dice...could that be a source? anyway, it's interesting! 😀
@avzaagzonunaada@e_munti hmmm...I've been under the impression that 'Prakrit' generally referred to formalized langs used esp. by Jains as well as poets, which had grammars & lexica by the second millennium, while "ordinary speech" (NIA or semi-NIA like Old Guj.) often gets called "bhāṣā"
@Konkanist Exactly! That’s an artifact of Sanskrit prosody - guru/laghu matras — Marathi prosody is dependent on different factors — and since neither Sanskrit nor Marathi grammar/poetics seems to be studied anymore, here we are…
@mkhanpasha East African Kutchi from what I'm sensing is a very special flower - not quite this not quite that...maybe a bit like the Kaccha region itself!
@cobbaltt bālaka-saṃbhāṣaṇam = bālakayoḥ saṃbhāṣaṇam - literally, the two boys possess conversing (the two boys are talking to each other...) >> don't know...just an idea!!
@cobbaltt@Ryan_Weller there is no prathamā TP as i understand it. prathamā TP is indeed KD. agent of the action of the second element would possess that action, and so ṣaṣṭhi. rāmagamanam = rāmasya gamanam
@Mimamsaka@Saatvata@yajnadevam@YuvrajS2012P As someone whose used phylogenetic tools extensively for editing a large corpus, I can tell you that they help but ultimately the editor has to get an intuitive sense of what the author was doing, otherwise we end up w a mess .