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Fact 38 – Yāska was the greatest etymologist of our Mother Tongue

Fact 38 – Yāska was the greatest etymologist of our Mother Tongue

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 This episode discusses the contributions of Yāska, the greatest etymologist of the ancient world. The Nirukta of Yāska is a treatise on etymology and semantics, explaining how words in the Vedas got their meanings. There were many etymologists before him and Yāska built his theories over the vast amount of work that existed before him. Gārgya was one such ancient etymologist Yāska quotes but disagrees with. Yāska claims to be a successor of Śākaṭāyana, an early etymologist, who also he quotes. In comparison, the earliest western etymologist was Plato, and Yāska predates Plato by many centuries. The basic premise of Yāska’s study was that all words in a language can be reduced to a set of basic elements called roots. No word in a language is underivable from some root or other. He enunciated three general principles for deriving words from roots. Tags: 108 facts, about Sanskrit, anaptyxis, assimilation, Durga, etymology, Greatness of Sanskrit, haplology, History, History of Sanskrit, Indo-European, metathesis, Mother Tongue, Nirukta, our mother tongue, Revival of Sanskrit, Sanskrit, Sanskrit Language, Sanskrit Literature, syncope, Upcoming book, Vedas, Vedic Sanskrit, Yāska

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