[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit word of the day: ananda

[cardemais...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

IMU, the prefixes a- and A-  (long a, often written also as 'aa') are in no way 
semantically related to each other.Neither have they (almost...) any 
relationship with the gender of those words.  This might be a bit hard to 
understand, but 'nanda' is a masculine substantive, the same word withthe 
negative prefix 'a-'  is an adjective (mfn: masculine, feminine or neuter 
depending onthe head word), and aa-nanda "again" is a substantive meaning 
'bliss', and stuff.