๐‘€…๐‘€ž๐‘€ซ

Ashokan Prakrit

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit ๐‘€…๐‘€ฑ๐‘†๐‘€๐‘€ซ (aแนฃแนญamรก). Cognate with Pali aแนญแนญhama, Gandhari ๐จ€๐จ›๐จจ (aแนญhama).

Adjective

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๐‘€…๐‘€ž๐‘€ซ (aแนญhama /aแนญแนญhama/)[1][2]

  1. eighth

Alternative forms

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Attested at Delhi-Topra and Lauriya-Araraj.

Dialectal forms of ๐‘€…๐‘€ž๐‘€ซ (โ€œeighthโ€)
Variety Location Lemmas Forms
Central Delhi-Topra ๐‘€…๐‘€ž๐‘€ซ (aแนญhama)
Lauriya-Araraj ๐‘€…๐‘€ž๐‘€ซ (aแนญhama)
Map of dialectal forms of ๐‘€…๐‘€ž๐‘€ซ (โ€œeighthโ€)
 
๐‘€…๐‘€ž๐‘€ซ (aแนญhama) (2)

Descendants

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  • Prakrit: ๐‘€…๐‘€๐‘†๐‘€ž๐‘€ซ (aแนญแนญhama) (see there for further descendants)

References

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  1. ^ Hultzsch, E[ugen Julius Theodor] (1925) Inscriptions of Aล›oka (new edition), in Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 232.
  2. ^ Sen, Sukumar (1960) A Comparative Grammar of Middle Indo-Aryan, Linguistic Society of India, page 139.