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Room at the top in Sanskrit

Room at the top in Sanskrit R O O M A T T H E T O P I N S A N S K R I T Ancient and m o d e r n descriptions o f nominal composition by J. F. STAAL Amsterdam INTRODUCTION I f J o h n Braine's b o o k Room at the top were translated into Sanskrit, regardless o f the question whether it would attract any readers, its title would consist o f one single n o u n : it could be literally translated as dirog.rham (from diras " t o p " and g.rham "house, r o o m " ) , kut.dgdra (from kfqa "peak", agdra "house"), or rendered m o r e freely as candraddld or candraprdsdda.h (from candra.h " m o o n " , ddld "hut", prdsdda.h " u p p e r storey"). 1 T h e aim o f this study is to describe some o f the processes which underly the f o r m a t i o n o f such c o m p o u n d nouns. At the same time this paper attempts to m a k e a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Indo-Iranian Journal Brill

Room at the top in Sanskrit

Staal, J. F.
Indo-Iranian Journal , Volume 9 (3): 165 – Jan 1, 1966
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Brill
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© 1966 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0019-7246
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10.1163/000000066790086620
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R O O M A T T H E T O P I N S A N S K R I T Ancient and m o d e r n descriptions o f nominal composition by J. F. STAAL Amsterdam INTRODUCTION I f J o h n Braine's b o o k Room at the top were translated into Sanskrit, regardless o f the question whether it would attract any readers, its title would consist o f one single n o u n : it could be literally translated as dirog.rham (from diras " t o p " and g.rham "house, r o o m " ) , kut.dgdra (from kfqa "peak", agdra "house"), or rendered m o r e freely as candraddld or candraprdsdda.h (from candra.h " m o o n " , ddld "hut", prdsdda.h " u p p e r storey"). 1 T h e aim o f this study is to describe some o f the processes which underly the f o r m a t i o n o f such c o m p o u n d nouns. At the same time this paper attempts to m a k e a

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