Talk:List of English words of Sanskrit origin

message: state as in condition.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.61.20.11 (talk) 05:57, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes! It is "state" as in condition! So, "How is his condition?" translates to "Unkee sthiti kaisee hai?".--therash09 (talk) 14:17, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  sthiti = state ? 

message: If a source of certain words is latin, is it possible that latin borrowed it from sanskrit ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vwalvekar (talk • contribs) 11:06, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Matru : Mother, Pitru : Father, Bhratru: Brother ? 

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Yes indeed there are quite a few Sanskrit words in English. However, there are too many common words in Sanskrit and English as both are Indo-European languages and Sanskrit the older one. Example, Sanskrit to English: cut=cut, nas=nose, irm=arm, hrt=heart, naam=name, dwar=door, widhwa=widow, madium=medium, uppar=upper, charittar=character, etc. The list is endless. 
Many of the words on this page are not in general use in English. Shall I list them? Leegee23 (talk) 13:45, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Words of Doubtful English Use 

message: Another one not supported by the ref given. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/emerald says that the source is Semitic b-r-q, from which the Sanskrit marāk(a)la is also derived.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.234.205.16 (talk) 23:53, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Emerald

message: This one is wrong. A cite ref is given http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=candle but whoever added it in has misread the source. It says "cf. Skt. cand-" but in etymology, "cf" does not mean "derives from", it means "compare" i.e. a cousin word descended from the same root. The actual root is PIE *kand.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.234.205.16 (talk) 23:23, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Candle

message: Sanskrit Gurukulam or place of learning from a guru. However i havent found any specific references regarding such other than hearsay at the moment.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.195.110.183 (talk) 05:01, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "curriculum" is a nice straightforward Latin word meaning "running" or "course". So Gurukulam is a false friend.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.234.205.16 (talk) 23:40, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Curriculum

message: What is the Sanskrit word. 
Sanskrit is aksah. Looks like this one branched off fairly early, since PIE has aks.  deeptrivia (talk) 20:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Axis

message: That is definitely chinese
No, Zen is Japanese pronounciation of Chinese Chan, which of course, is the Chinese pronounciation of dhyana.  deeptrivia (talk) 20:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Zen

message: Should 'ginger' be listed on this page? I think it should be moved to the Tamil page instead.
vide http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Zing_off.html
: Agree. Entry in Tamil page exists, so I removed the entry here. Ambarish | Talk 15:37, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Ginger

message: What's 'navigate' doing here? Doesn't it come from the Latin 'navigo' - to sail? Felix Dance 07:55, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The word navigation actually comes from the Sanskrit nav gatih DaGizza Chat (c) 08:26, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  All of the sources that claim that the word navigation is from nav gatih do not deal with etymology,  but instead Indian nationalism.  But the article even gives a different word for the etymology of navigation: Navigathi.  There are only two entries on google; one is a pdf and the other is a webblog, so nav gatih (197 entries) is more popular.  Both are not factually accurate since etymonline even gives the year of the word: "1533, from L. navigationem (nom. navigatio), from navigatus, pp. of navigare ".  Mar de Sin Speak up! 20:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed navigation.  There is not a shred of evidence that it has anything to do with Sanskrit.  OED gives its etymology: < Middle French, French navigation voyage (late 13th cent. in Old French), action of travelling by water (mid 16th cent.), art or science of travelling by sea (mid 16th cent.), action or art of travelling through the air by means of an aircraft (1742) and its etymon classical Latin n{amac}vig{amac}ti{omac}n-, n{amac}vig{amac}ti{omac} the action of travelling by ship, sailing, a voyage < n{amac}vig{amac}t-, past participial stem of n{amac}vig{amac}re NAVIGATE v. + -i{omac} -ION1. Cf. Italian navigazione (1304-8), Spanish navegación (c1440; 1519 in sense 3 as nauegacion in passage translated in quot. a1543). Fowler&fowler«Talk» 03:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Navigate

message: The article states "from a Semitic tongue, but probably finally from Sanskrit sanipriya", however the source reads "some linguists propose an origin in Skt. sanipriya". That is a big difference, and at the very least this source does not support a "probable" Sanskrit origin 82.227.196.67 (talk) 16:14, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sapphire

message: Many of the words on this list (e.g. mother/brother/navigation/etc.) do not come from Sanskrit but Latin or Proto-Indo-European.  They do have similar Sanskrit counterparts, but are very distantly related. To say that they are from Sanskrit is factually incorrect, because the etymological sources that actually give the Sanskrit counterparts have then as words from P-I-E and not as anything in the direct etymology of the English word.  Mar de Sin Speak up! 19:50, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's what I was thinking. Several of the words seem to be just distantly related instead of being *from* Sanskrit. I get a feeling of bad linguistic self-esteem (desperate attempts to find matches) from the whole article.--Snowgrouse 11:31, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you please detail your opinion giving distantly related examples? --Chapultepec 17:26, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

text: I will remove some of the words inaccurately describes as being from Sanskrit, but feel free to discuss. Mar de Sin Speak up! 19:58, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article lists family terms such as father, mother, brother, and sister as of Sanskrit origin, but most linguists consider these to be of Anglo-Saxon origin deriving from proto-Germanic. For example, see Online Etymology Dictionary for origins of these words. The source cited for "sister"  actually states that the word is of mixed old English and old Norse origin and merely states that it is akin to the Sanskrit cognate, not derived from it. The source for the other three words  is someone's blog and hardly seems like a reliable source. The author of this blog seems to be claiming Sanskrit origins for English words based on similarity alone. For example, the word "brother" is claimed to derive from Sanskrit through Greek(!), a far-fetched claim considering that Germanic languages closely related to English all have highly similar words for brother (as well as mother, father, and sister).--Smcg8374 (talk) 07:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual accuracy 

message: The article claims that the number three (3) in English is derived from Sanskrit, I find this highly unlikely. Surely 3 is derived from other Germanic and European languages which preceded English, and ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European language, not Sanskrit. I cannot even imagine how the English would for some bizarre reason adopt an Indian word for one of the primary letters, especially since the two cultures have only been in contact for about a thousand years or so. The entry is not cited in any way, and it looks like the work of some armature linguist who thinks he sees something, unless someone can come up with a citation for the number 3 being derived from the Sanskrit language, I'm going to delete the entry. --Hibernian (talk) 06:00, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Number 3?! 

message: There is no evidence that "Smart" is of Sanskrit origin, and the citation doesn't even say that, it compares it to cognates in Greek, Sanskrit and Latin.  That does not in any way imply that the words are of Sanskrit origin.
It is also claiming that the Latin word "Argentinum," and thus all of its derived terms, are from Sanskrit.  The citations in that entry don't mention anything about the Sanskrit origin, in fact, they're citations that I would deem unnecessary.
"Ginger" is back on here, but the only evidence I can find is that it is of Dravidian origin.  I am going to remove it shortly.
"Son" is claimed.  Really?  It's an old English word, at what point did the Anglo-Saxons encounter Sanskrit-speaking peoples?
The main problem that this list seems to have is the unwillingness among some to differentiate Indo-European roots from direct borrowing.  There are very few borrowings from Sanskrit into Latin and Greek.  There was very little contact.  I would also like to point out that Avestan, a language closely related to, but not derived from, Sanskrit would have had extensive contact with the Greeks.  We, however, do not have as deep of knowledge of Avestan as we do of Sanskrit.
Finally, about half these entries were adopted into English via Hindi, and we have a list of English Words derived from Hindi.  The latter is significantly shorter and becomes mostly redundant, especially because most Hindi words come from Sanskrit.  I suggest that we prune this of adaptations taken from Hindi, leaving those to their own article.
Franzose (talk) 17:20, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: A few Words

message: In the references, links that are supposed to display definitions from the Bartleby version of the American Heritage Dictionary display only the Bartleby main page instead. Bartleby no longer contains this work. The definitions are available (one at a time) from http://ahdictionary.com/. David F (talk) 00:45, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bartleby version of American Heritage Dictionary - gone 

message: Hindivindi (talk) 05:54, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That looks like a good idea. bobrayner (talk) 22:47, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the linked articles be updated with their respective etymology origins? 

message: The word Geometry is derived from the Sanskrit word Jamiti and Para (pronounced as Pa rah) also means something  that is different in Sanskrit. For example, Paranormal means something that is not normal and Para Shakti means a power that is not from here, a power from somewhere else. Trikonamiti is a Sanskrit word for Trigonometry, I think the word might be derived from Sanskrit. I have necessary references for these words, so I think we can go ahead and add these words to this list. I already added Pundit. Please let me know if I'm wrong. Thank you.
from Greek trigonon "triangle" (from tri- "three" (see tri-) + gonia "angle" (see -gon)) + metron "a measure" (see meter (n.2)).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Christos orestis (talk • contribs) 10:13, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geometry, Para, Trikonamiti 

message: The use of non-English words have spoiled the intent of this page. To say that the words "Amrita" and "Buddha" are English words is just silly. Words like Regal, King, Cow, Same, Man, etc. are more suitable as being actual longterm English words that are of ancient Sanskrit/Indo-European origin.
"Right" and "Action" is also originated from Sanskrit/Indo-Eropean origin.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.58.204.5 (talk) 19:41, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not English words 

message: I have started removing words that have no meaning or use in English that is different from meaning and use in the source languages. This isn't a glossary of religious terms nor of places in foreign counties. I know some of these word are defined in English dictionaries, but that does not mean they are now English words. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 07:07, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing non-English words. 

message: Rabies is not from Sanskrit, it's from Latin rabies, from rabio, which is a cognate of rabhas, not descended from it. Same thing for navigate... Is this entire article being edited by hindu nationalists or something?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.43.73.64 (talk) 04:31, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many of these are totally inaccurate 

message: Path, "From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ ‎(“path, track”), from Proto-Germanic *paþaz ‎(“path”)" - Wiktionary. 
Rye, Does this has another meaning? Because the grain is: From Middle English, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrugʰyo-  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vatterholm (talk • contribs) 12:20, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some more words that aren't from Sanskrit according to Wiktionary.  

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message: The majority of these words are Proto Indo European cognates and not of Sanskrit origin. Because they are a common family, the ancestor of Sanskrit (PIE) is often the source of both the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and derivative English words. Most of these additions are people noticing a similarity which usually indicates a cognate and falsely labelling it as Sanskrit origin without a citation. The true list would be much shorter and most of the words would be introduced through a modern vernacular Indian language that actually interacted with English such as Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi, etc. I question the value of a page with this much misinformation.Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 21:36, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Each word is suppose to have a citation the mentions a Sanskrit origin. Sometimes if the word links to an article that mentions a cited Sanskrit origin, that good enough. You are welcome to remove any word that is not cited in some way. I have removed words in the past that were cognates. Do you have any particular word in mind? Richard-of-Earth (talk) 07:59, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The majority of these words are [[Proto Indo European]] cognates and not of Sanskrit origin 

message: Someone changed Indo-european to YAMS and it remained through many subsequent edits since January 23rd.
Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 22:05, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh, I do watch this page. It happen with this edit back at the end of January. I just somehow missed it. Thanks for catching it. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 08:46, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did no one notice this