(urth) Rajan vs Raja

Mo Holkar / UKG lists at ukg.co.uk
Thu Apr 16 22:55:17 PDT 2009


At 01:04 17/04/2009, James Wynn wrote:
>I don't speak Sanskrit. I looked it up (Thanks for that, Mr. Wolfe). 
>Actually, I don' think there IS a modern term "rajan". Rajan is the 
>term from which we get "raja" and the nominative *case* is "ray-jay".


There are quite a few modern languages descended from Sanskrit. In at 
least one of them -- Nepali -- "Rajan" is the ordinary nominative 
case that corresponds to Hindi "Raja".

best,

Mo



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