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

Wait so apparently Panjabi comes from Paishachi prakrit and not Shauraseni???

Whadyu mean रिक्शा comes from Japanese???

Accidentally found out a Sanskrit word for “penis” is शिश्न from root श्नथ् meaning “to pierce”

Thinking about ह्रस्व and according to wiktionary (link) it comes from ह्रस् + व which is interesting because I would expect that to became ह्रः + व which would then become ह्रोव

Love finding fun easy-to-say phrases

Really wish Devanagari had a cursive. It takes too long to write simple syllables

I cant seem to figure out why elephants are called सामज in Sanskrit. The only result I get is the kriti Samaja Varagamana, praising Lord Rama’s gait as that like an elephant (which is what led me on this search in the first place)

I love realizing that a word I use in Hindi is actually a tadbhava. Like सकना “to can” comes from the root शक् meaning “can” and makes words like शक्ति “capability,” “power,” or “potential to can”

Thinking about how my in my seventh grade, the teacher said that numbers can be adjectives. Example: Five fiddles. Five describes the fiddles in their quantity. I bring this up because in Sanskrit, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and numerals are all lumped into one category. Sanskrit scholars take it to the extremes.

Ik that ill have better luck finding community on reddit (im pretty sure its already established) but I refuse to go there. I wanna find people interested in languages here and here only

Ultimately, the main reason I wanna learn Sanskrit is so that I can break the rules. Im gonna play with my dolls in a way that will bug people, and they can do nothing about it. But to do that, I ned to learn how to play properly

So apparently the word Sanskrit as the name of the language is neuter gender in Sanskrit. That makes things easy