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Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: rājan and rāja
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Monier Monier-Williams
- YEAR
- 1899
- PUBLISHER
- Clarendon Press · University of Hyderabad digital edition
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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RANK 111GRADE Asupports
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.
*h₃reg̑-
*h₃reg̑- → *h₃reg- → *rēg- → *rēg-en- → rājan- → rājā
Entries rāja and rājanDistinguishes the case form and lexical stem.
rājā dossier ↗truth record ↗86UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
resolvedsupportsestablished
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.
Entries rāja and rājanDistinguishes nominative or compound usage from the lexical stem.
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EDGE 795supportsestablished
rājā → rājan-
Sanskrit → Sanskrit · inflection
- SOUND
- Sanskrit rājā is the nominative singular of the consonant stem rājan-.
- MEANING
- The inflected form and lexical stem both mean king rather than separate lexical ancestors.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Monier Monier-Williams · Harald Wiese
Entries rāja and rājanDistinguishes the nominative and compound form from the consonant stem.
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rājāSOURCE-REPORTED
rājā
Monier-Williams lexical record for rājan and rāja
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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
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stage 3supports
South Asia
Documents the stem, meanings, and literary record.
Entries rāja and rājan · broad070
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