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semi-tatsama en · NOUN

Etymology

From semi- + tatsama.

Meanings

1. (Indo-Aryan-linguistics) A semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Coordinates

tatsama · tadbhava

Translations (2)

bn অর্ধতৎসম (a word borrowed from Sanskrit earlier in an Indo-Aryan language's history and having since underwent change) · hi अर्धतत्सम (a word borrowed from Sanskrit earlier in an Indo-Aryan language's history and having since underwent change)