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

2014-08-18 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
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 un

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

2014-08-17 Thread 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