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I dunno why seeing wiktionary say ज्योतिस् being a “mystical name for the letter ra” makes me laugh

It just occured to me that idk the Hindi word for table

Was is Vancouver, WA for a couple days and visited Powell’s in Portland, OR. I got an Intro to Sanskrit book. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a book for Tamil, but I was pressed for time since my mom wanted to leave.

The Devi Kavacha has the word शृणुष्व, but isnt श्रु a parasmaipadi dhatu? ashtadhyayi dot com only lists शृणु (link)

recalcitrant sounds like a chemistry term, but it’s a synonym of stubborn

“Deprotonated” is a fun word to say

Maybe Thevaram isnt the best way to expose myself to Tamil

They say to improve your grasp of a language, consume media in it, so what’s a better way to improve reading comprehension than reading wikipedia articles in that language?

Dirgha ū sandhi I feel is so under-utilized

When did verbs become gendered in Hindi? Sanskrit doesnt do that

No clue how changing the gender of a noun works. How do I know when to add an आ (उदाहरण - अद्रिज/अद्रिजा) or an ई (उदाहरण - सुंदर/सुंदरी) to the noun to make it feminine or when I gotta do something else entirely (उदाहरण - सम्राट्/सम्राज्ञी)? How do you make a feminine noun masculine? What about the napunsakalinga?

I want to pronounce ऋ properly, but I dont wanna overdo it else I think im saying ॠ, but I dont know what either sound like. How do you even make a dīrgha vowel sound here???

Schnapp is a fucking long word with a single syllable

Theorizing that सुनना is a tadbhava from शृ meaning “to hear”