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START / NODE 791SanskritVedic and Classical Sanskrit
rājā
The Sanskrit nominative singular meaning king, sovereign, prince, or chief, belonging to the consonant stem rājan-.
“Rājā is a case form, not the underlying Sanskrit stem: the lexical stem is rājan-, and royal is its distant Latin cousin rather than its descendant.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Sanskritrājā
king, sovereign, prince, chief
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Sanskrit · Vedic and Classical Sanskritrājan-king, sovereign, prince, chief
- SOUND CHANGE
- Sanskrit rājā is the nominative singular of the consonant stem rājan-.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The inflected form and lexical stem both mean king rather than separate lexical ancestors.
- SCHOLAR
- Monier Monier-Williams · Harald Wiese
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- The relation is grammatical morphology inside Sanskrit.
2 CITATIONSMonier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: rājan and rājaEntries rāja and rājan Sanskrit as an Indo-European LanguageSelective etymological dictionary, p. 373: rājan m., king AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 795 ↗
Distinguishes the nominative and compound form from the consonant stem.
ORIGINAL ↗Publishes the Sanskrit king stem in the Indo-European family.
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