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sansEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English saunz, sans, borrowed from Old French sans, senz, sens, from Latin sine (“without”) conflated with absēns (“absent, remote”). Compare French sans, Italian senza, Portuguese sem, and Spanish sin.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗sansEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024011
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HISTORICAL FORMS
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Sanskrit / Indo-European
caturaṅga
four-limbed army; chess game-name
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- 6th century CE
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- language
- DOSSIERS
- 0
Sanskrit / Indo-European
rājan-
king, sovereign, prince, chief
- DATE
- Vedic and Classical Sanskrit
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- language
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Sanskrit / Indo-European
rājā
king, sovereign, prince, chief
- DATE
- Vedic and Classical Sanskrit
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- language
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Sanskrit / Indo-European
śramaṇa
ascetic; monk
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- Sanskrit Buddhist term
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- language
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 5
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Does the ODS Sanskrit comparison prove a direct Sanskrit-to-Danish line?
No. ODS preserves an older comparison with Sanskrit pīyati, while modern comparative work gives a reconstructed route. Neither source licenses a historical borrowing or direct line.
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Does Evenki šamān securely descend from Sanskrit śramaṇa?
The resemblance and Central Asian transmission routes have motivated a hypothesis, but direct evidence connecting the Buddhist term to the Evenki word remains insufficient.
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Can the akin German and Sanskrit forms be used as direct parents?
No. The reviewed source labels Old High German kliuwa and Sanskrit glauḥ as akin forms, not successive ancestors of English clew.
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Did English royal descend from Sanskrit rājā?
No. Sanskrit rājā and Latin rēx are cognates in separate Indo-Aryan and Italic branches under the same reconstructed king grade.
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Is rājā the lexical stem of the Sanskrit noun?
Not exactly. Rājā is the nominative singular; the consonant stem is rājan-, which appears across the paradigm and compounds.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 111GRADE Aranked reveal
Rājā is the visible case form; rājan- is the stem.
The familiar Sanskrit nominative rājā belongs to the consonant stem rājan-, reconstructed through *rēg-en- in the same deep family as royal, rí, right, and rule.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book
The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints SINCERE as a headword and opens with the senses true and frank.
sincère / sincere / 1694
Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 2 (M–Z), première éditionwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Monier-Williams lexical record for rājan and rāja
rājā / rājā / Vedic and Classical Sanskrit lexical record
Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: rājan and rājareporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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