On 8/17/2014 3:51 PM, cardemais...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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.
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Sometimes Hindi speakers will add an "a" at the end of words which is
supposed to relate to gender, for example yog instead of yoga. Go figure.
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