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Sanskrit Grammatical Terminology
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{ | |
"data": { | |
"General": { | |
"intro": "<p>These are general terms which apply to various aspects of Sanskrit grammar.</p>", | |
"glossary": [ | |
{ | |
"id" : "prakrtih", | |
"skt" : "prakr̥tiḥ", | |
"eng" : "base", | |
"comm" : "That to which an <a href='#pratyayah'>affix</a> is added. A base can be nominal (see <a href='#pratipadikam'>nominal stem</a>) or verbal. This is a synonym of <a href='#angam'>aṅgam</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "samanadhikaranah", | |
"skt" : "samānādhikaraṇaḥ", | |
"eng" : "coreferential", | |
"comm" : "Literally “having the same substrate.” Two linguistic forms are coreferential they identify the same entity. See also <a href='#vyadhikaranah'>non-coreferential</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "vyadhikaranah", | |
"skt" : "vyadhikaraṇaḥ", | |
"eng" : "non-coreferential", | |
"comm" : "The opposite of <a href='#samanadhikaranah'>coreferential</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "angam", | |
"skt" : "aṅgam", | |
"eng" : "base", | |
"comm" : "That to which an <a href='#pratyayah'>affix</a> is added. A base can be nominal (see <a href='#pratipadikam'>nominal stem</a>) or verbal. This is a synonym of <a href='#prakrtih'>prakr̥tiḥ</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "pratyayah", | |
"skt" : "pratyayaḥ", | |
"eng" : "affix", | |
"comm" : "That which is added to <a href='#prakrtih'>base</a>. Typically an affix follows its base, and hence it can be described as a suffix." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "nipatah", | |
"skt" : "nipātaḥ", | |
"eng" : "particle", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id":"ekavacanam-n", | |
"skt":"ēkavacanam", | |
"eng":"singular", | |
"comm":"" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id":"dvivacanam-n", | |
"skt":"dvivacanam", | |
"eng":"dual", | |
"comm":"" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id":"bahuvacanam-n", | |
"skt":"bahuvacanam", | |
"eng":"plural", | |
"comm":"" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id":"samkhya", | |
"skt":"saṅkhyā", | |
"eng":"number", | |
"comm":"" | |
} | |
] | |
}, | |
"Phonology": { | |
"intro": "", | |
"glossary": [ | |
{ | |
"id" : "ghosah", | |
"skt" : "ghōṣaḥ", | |
"eng" : "voicing", | |
"comm" : "Vibration of the vocal cords, which is either present (<a href='#ghosavat'>voiced</a>) or absent (<a href='#aghosah'>unvoiced</a>) in a phoneme." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "ghosavat", | |
"skt" : "ghōṣavān", | |
"eng" : "voiced", | |
"comm" : "A phoneme that is pronounced with <a href='#ghosah'>voicing</a>. This includes all <a href='#svarah'>vowels</a>, all <a href='#antahsthah'>semivowels</a>, all <a href='#anunasikah'>nasals</a>, and half of the <a href='#sparsah'>stop</a> consonants, as well as <i>h</i>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "aghosa", | |
"skt" : "aghōṣaḥ", | |
"eng" : "voiceless", | |
"comm" : "A phoneme that is pronounced without <a href='#ghosah'>voicing</a>. This includes half of the <a href='#sparsah'>stop</a> consonants, and all of the <a href='#usman'>sibilants</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "visargah", | |
"skt" : "visargaḥ", | |
"eng" : "visarga", | |
"comm" : "A voiceless, placeless, aspiration, written <i>ḥ</i>, which is of the allophones of <i>s</i> and <i>r</i> at the end of a word. Also called <i>visarjanīyaḥ</i>. See also: <a href='#upadhmaniya'>upadhmānīyaḥ</a> and <a href='#jihvamuliyah'>jihvāmūlīyaḥ</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "pranah", | |
"skt" : "prāṇaḥ", | |
"eng" : "aspiration", | |
"comm" : "An exhalation of breath that accompanies the pronunciation of sound. <a href='#sparsah'>Stop</a> consonants are either <a href='#alpapranah'>unaspirated</a> or <a href='#mahapranah'>aspirated</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "alpapranah", | |
"skt" : "alpaprāṇaḥ", | |
"eng" : "unaspirated", | |
"comm" : "Literally “with small <a href='#pranah'>aspiration</a>.” Half of the <a href='#sparsa'>stop</a> consonants are unaspirated." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "mahapranah", | |
"skt" : "mahāprāṇaḥ", | |
"eng" : "aspirated", | |
"comm" : "Literally “with large <a href='#pranah'>aspiration</a>.” Half of the <a href='#sparsa'>stop</a> consonants are aspirated." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "svarah-1", | |
"skt" : "svaraḥ", | |
"eng" : "accent", | |
"comm" : "Sanskrit words generally have one syllable of accentual prominence, which is linked in the Indian grammatical tradition to a vowel. The accented vowel, which has a high pitch in the R̥gvēdic recitation tradition, is called <a href='#udattah'>udātta</a>; unaccented vowels are called <a href='#anudattah'>anudatta</a>. See also <a href='#svaritah'>svarita</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "svarah", | |
"skt" : "svaraḥ", | |
"eng" : "vowel", | |
"comm" : "A sound that is pronounced with a completely unobstructed flow of air, which can form the nuclear of a <a href='#aksarah'>syllable</a>. See also: <a href='#ac'>a-C</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "vyanjanah", | |
"skt" : "vyañjanaḥ", | |
"eng" : "consonant", | |
"comm" : "A sound that cannot form the nucleus of <a href='#aksarah'>syllable</a>, and therefore requires the accompaniment of a <a href='#svarah'>vowel</a> in order to be produced. Hence the name: “that which manifests [a vowel sound].” See also: <a href='#hal'>h<span class='pron'>a</span>-L</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "antahsthah", | |
"skt" : "antaḥsthaḥ", | |
"eng" : "semivowel", | |
"comm" : "Literally “standing between [vowels and consonants].” A sound that has the articulatory features of a vowel but does not stand in the nucleus of a <a href='#aksarah'>syllable</a>. See also: <a href='#ik'>y<span class='pron'>a</a>-Ṇ</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "sparsah", | |
"skt" : "sparśaḥ", | |
"eng" : "stop", | |
"comm" : "Also called “occlusive.” A sound wherein the flow of air is completely occluded by the <a href='#sthanam'>organs of articulation</a>. All stops are <a href='#vyanjanah'>consonants</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "svaritah", | |
"skt" : "svaritaḥ", | |
"eng" : "circumflex", | |
"comm" : "An accent that results from the combination of an <a href='#udattah'>accented</a> and <a href='#anudattah'>unaccented</a> vowel in <a href='#sandhih'>sandhi</a>. It is usually pronounced with a rising and falling tone." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "anudattah", | |
"skt" : "anudāttaḥ", | |
"eng" : "unaccented", | |
"comm" : "In the Indian tradition, any vowel in a word that is not associated with either a rising <a href='#svarah-1'>pitch accent</a> (<a href='#udattah'>udātta</a>) or a rising and falling accent (<a href='#svaritah'>svaritaḥ</a>); in modern terms, the entire syllable is probably to be described as unaccented." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "udattah", | |
"skt" : "udāttaḥ", | |
"eng" : "accented", | |
"comm" : "In the Indian tradition, the vowel with which a rising <a href='#svarah-1'>pitch accent</a> is associated; in modern terms, the entire syllable is probably to be described as accented." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "ac", | |
"skt" : "a-C", | |
"eng" : "vowel", | |
"comm" : "Pāṇini’s abbreviation for <a href='#svarah'>vowels</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "hal", | |
"skt" : "h<span class='pron'>a</span>-L", | |
"eng" : "consonant", | |
"comm" : "Pāṇini’s abbreviation for a <a href='#vyanjanah'>consonant</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "yan", | |
"skt" : "y<span class='pron'>a</span>-Ṇ", | |
"eng" : "semivowel", | |
"comm" : "Pāṇini’s abbreviation for a <span class='#antahsthah'>semivowel</a>." | |
} | |
] | |
}, | |
"Nouns": { | |
"intro": "<p>Nominal forms are typically called <i>nāmāni</i>, or, following Pāṇini’s terminology, <i>sU-P</i>, “[forms that terminate in one of] the declensional endings.” This section will also cover most indeclinables (<a href='#avyayam'>avyayāni</a>).", | |
"glossary": [ | |
{ | |
"id": "pratipadikam", | |
"skt": "prātipadikam", | |
"eng": "nominal stem", | |
"comm": "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id": "avyayam", | |
"skt": "avyayam", | |
"eng": "indeclinable", | |
"comm": "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id": "sup", | |
"skt" : "s<span class='anu'>U</span>-<span class='anu'>P</span>", | |
"eng" : "noun", | |
"comm" : "Literally, “[that which terminates in] one of the declensional endings.”" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id": "ghi", | |
"skt" : "ghi", | |
"eng" : "i/u-stem", | |
"comm" : "Pāṇini’s technical term for a <a href='#pratipadikam'>nominal stem</a> ending in a short <i>i</i> or <i>u</i>, which triggers special endings." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id": "nadi", | |
"skt" : "nadī", | |
"eng" : "derivative ī/ū-stem", | |
"comm" : "Pāṇini’s technical term for a <a href='#pratipadikam'>nominal stem</a> ending in a long <i>ī</i> or <i>ū</i>, which are all feminine and almost always polysyllabic. This class largely coincides with feminine stems built using <a href='#stripratyayah'>feminine suffixes</a>, and hence it can be characterized as a set of ‘derivative’ stems. Membership in this class of stems triggers special endings." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id": "stripratyayah", | |
"skt": "strīpratyayaḥ", | |
"eng": "feminine suffix", | |
"comm": "Any one of a number of suffixes added onto nominal stems (<a href='#taddhitah'>taddhitāḥ</a>) which primary serve to form a feminine stem." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "vibhakti", | |
"skt" : "vibhaktiḥ", | |
"eng" : "case suffix", | |
"comm" : "An inflectional ending used in nominal forms (thus also called a declensional ending) which primarily expresses the grammatical category of case." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "prathama", | |
"skt" : "prathamā (vibhaktiḥ)", | |
"eng" : "nominative case", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "dvitiya", | |
"skt" : "dvitīyā (vibhaktiḥ)", | |
"eng" : "accusative case", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "trtiya", | |
"skt" : "tr̥tīyā (vibhaktiḥ)", | |
"eng" : "instrumental case", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "caturthi", | |
"skt" : "caturthī (vibhaktiḥ)", | |
"eng" : "dative case", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "pancami", | |
"skt" : "pañcamī (vibhaktiḥ)", | |
"eng" : "ablative case", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "sasthi", | |
"skt" : "ṣaṣthī (vibhaktiḥ)", | |
"eng" : "genitive case", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "saptami", | |
"skt" : "saptamī (vibhaktiḥ)", | |
"eng" : "locative case", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "sambodhanam", | |
"skt" : "saṁbōdhanam", | |
"eng" : "vocative", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "sambuddhih", | |
"skt" : "saṁbuddhiḥ", | |
"eng" : "vocative", | |
"comm" : "" | |
} | |
] | |
}, | |
"Verbs": { | |
"intro": "<p>Verbal forms are typically called <i>ākhyātāni</i>, or, following Pāṇini’s terminology, <i>ti-Ṅ</i>, “[forms that terminate in one of] the finite verbal endings. The category of verbal forms is, however, larger than that of <i>finite</i> verbal forms. This section will therefore also include primary verbal derivatives that are, despite being non-finite, often used as the verbal predicate of a sentence.</p>", | |
"glossary": [ | |
{ | |
"id" : "dhatuh", | |
"skt": "dhātuḥ", | |
"eng": "verbal root", | |
"comm": "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id":"prathamapurusah", | |
"skt":"prathamapuruṣaḥ", | |
"eng":"third person", | |
"comm":"" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id":"madhyamapurusah", | |
"skt":"madhyamapuruṣaḥ", | |
"eng":"second person", | |
"comm":"" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id":"uttamapurusah", | |
"skt":"uttamapuruṣaḥ", | |
"eng":"first person", | |
"comm":"" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "upasargah", | |
"skt": "upasargaḥ", | |
"eng": "preverb", | |
"comm": "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "vikaranah", | |
"skt": "vikaraṇaḥ", | |
"eng": "present stem formant", | |
"comm": "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "tin", | |
"skt": "ti-Ṅ", | |
"eng": "finite verb", | |
"comm": "A form that terminates in a finite verbal ending, which expresses the categories of tense and mood (combined into one of the <a href='#lakarah'>lakārāḥ</a>) as well as <a href='#purusah'>person</a> and <a href='#sankhya-v'>number</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "lakarah", | |
"skt": "lakāraḥ", | |
"eng": "tense-aspect-mood", | |
"comm": "Pāṇini uses forms beginning with the sound <i>l</i> to represent conjugational systems, which we would call combinations of tense, mood, and aspect (or <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tense%E2%80%93aspect%E2%80%93mood'>TAM</a>). The TAM systems that Pāṇini defines are: <a href='#lat'>laṭ</a>, <a href='#lan'>laṅ</a>, <a href='#lun'>luṅ</a>, <a href='#lit'>liṭ</a>, <a href='#lot'>lōṭ</a>, <a href='#lrt'>lr̥ṭ</a>, <a href='#lin'>liṅ</a>, <a href='#let'>lēṭ</a>, <a href='#lut'>luṭ</a>, and <a href='#lrn'>lr̥ṅ</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "lat", | |
"skt": "laṭ", | |
"eng": "present indicative", | |
"comm": "The <a href='#lakarah'>lakāraḥ</a> for the present indicative. It refers to present time." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "lan", | |
"skt": "laṅ", | |
"eng": "imperfect indicative", | |
"comm": "The <a href='#lakarah'>lakāraḥ</a> for the imperfect indicative. It refers to time in the recent past." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "lun", | |
"skt": "luṅ", | |
"eng": "aorist indicative", | |
"comm": "The <a href='#lakarah'>lakāraḥ</a> for the aorist indicative. It refers to time in the past, without further specification." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "lit", | |
"skt": "liṭ", | |
"eng": "perfect indicative", | |
"comm": "The <a href='#lakarah'>lakāraḥ</a> for the perfect indicative. It refers to time in the past, usually in the distant past, beyond the speaker’s own experience." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "lin", | |
"skt": "liṅ", | |
"eng": "present optative", | |
"comm": "The <a href='#lakarah'>lakāraḥ</a> for the optative, which is almost always formed from the present stem in classical Sanskrit. It is the primary <i>irrealis</i> form, with the senses of obligation, permission, potentiality, and counterfactuality." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "kta", | |
"skt": "Kta", | |
"eng": "past absolutive participle", | |
"comm": "A verbal adjective formed by the affixation of <i>tá</i> to a verbal root in the zero grade. The alignment pattern of this participle is absolutive: generally, it describes the <a href='#kartr'>agent</a> of an <a href='#akarmakam'>intransitive</a> verb, or the <a href='#karma'>patient</a> of a <a href='#sakarmakam'>transitive</a> verb. It can be used either attributively or predicately." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "krtya", | |
"skt": "kr̥tyaḥ", | |
"eng": "potential absolutive participle", | |
"comm": "A verbal adjective formed by the affixation of one of a number of suffixes, all of which express the notion of futurity, potentiality, or obligation. These suffixes all take absolutive alignment: that is, they describe the <a href='#kartr'>agent</a> of an <a href='#akarmakam'>intransitive</a> verb, or the <a href='#karma'>patient</a> of a <a href='#sakarmakam'>transitive</a> verb. They can be used either attributively or predicately. Some examples of such suffixes include: <a href='#aniyar'>anīyaR</a>, <a href='#nyat'>ṆyaT</a> and <a href='#yat'>yaT</a>, <a href='#kyap'>KyaP</a>, <a href='#tavya'>tavya</a> and <a href='#tavyat'>tavyaT</a>." | |
} | |
] | |
}, | |
"Compounds": { | |
"intro": "<p>Compounds refer to two nominal forms (<a href='#sup'>sU-P</a>) combined into a single form.</p>", | |
"glossary": [ | |
{ | |
"id" : "tatpurusah", | |
"skt" : "tatpuruṣaḥ", | |
"eng" : "endocentric compound", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "upapadatatpurusah", | |
"skt" : "upapadatatpuruṣaḥ", | |
"eng" : "subordinate-word endocentric compound", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "karmadharayah", | |
"skt" : "karmadhārayaḥ", | |
"eng" : "coreferential endocentric compound", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "vibhaktitatpurusah", | |
"skt" : "vibhaktipuruṣaḥ", | |
"eng" : "case-relation endocentric compound", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "bahuvrihih", | |
"skt" : "bahuvrīhiḥ", | |
"eng" : "exocentric compound", | |
"comm" : "" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "dvandvah", | |
"skt" : "dvandvaḥ", | |
"eng" : "copulative compound", | |
"comm" : "" | |
} | |
] | |
}, | |
"Syntax": { | |
"intro": "", | |
"glossary": [ | |
{ | |
"id" : "sakarmakah", | |
"skt" : "sakarmakaḥ", | |
"eng" : "transitive", | |
"comm" : "Describes a verbal root which can take a <a href='#karma'>patient</a> as one of its core arguments, either as the accusative object in the <a href='#kartariprayogah'>agentive construction</a> or as the nominative subject in the <a href='#karmaniprayogah'>patentive construction</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "akarmakah", | |
"skt" : "akarmakaḥ", | |
"eng" : "intransitive", | |
"comm" : "Describes a verbal root that takes a single core argument, which is generally called the <a href='#kartr'>agent</a>, although the agent may often be better characterized as an ‘experiencer’ or ‘undergoer.’ Such verbs cannot take an accusative object." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "dvikarmakah", | |
"skt" : "dvikarmakaḥ", | |
"eng" : "ditransitive", | |
"comm" : "Describes a verbal root that can take <i>three</i> core arguments: one <a href='#kartr'>agent</a> and two <a href='#karma'>patients</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "kartariprayogah", | |
"skt" : "kartari prayōgaḥ", | |
"eng" : "agentive construction", | |
"comm" : "A construction wherein the verbal predicate (whether represented by a finite verb or not) expresses the <a href='#kartr'>agent</a> of the verbal action." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "karmaniprayogah", | |
"skt" : "karmaṇi prayōgaḥ", | |
"eng" : "patientive construction", | |
"comm" : "A construction wherein the verbal predicate (whether represented by a finite verb or not) expresses the <a href='#kartr'>patient</a> of the verbal action." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "prayojakakartr", | |
"skt" : "prayōjakakartr̥", | |
"eng" : "impelling agent", | |
"comm" : "In a causative construction, the agent who causes the <a href='#prayojyakartr'>impelled agent</a> to perform the verbal action." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "prayojyakakartr", | |
"skt" : "prayōjyakakartr̥", | |
"eng" : "impeled agent", | |
"comm" : "In a causative construction, the agent who is caused to perform the verbal action by the <a href='#prayojakakartr'>impelling agent</a>." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "karma", | |
"skt" : "karma", | |
"eng" : "patient", | |
"comm" : "One of the <a href='#karakam'>participant roles</a>: the one which is most affected by the action of the verb." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "kartr", | |
"skt" : "kartr̥", | |
"eng" : "agent", | |
"comm" : "One of the <a href='#karakam'>participant roles</a>: the one which carries out the action of the verb." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "karanam", | |
"skt" : "karaṇam", | |
"eng" : "instrument", | |
"comm" : "One of the <a href='#karakam'>participant roles</a>: the one by means of which the action of the verb is brought about." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "sampradanam", | |
"skt" : "saṁpradānam", | |
"eng" : "recipient", | |
"comm" : "One of the <a href='#karakam'>participant roles</a>: the one which is receives or benefits from the action of the verb." | |
}, | |
{ | |
"id" : "karakam", | |
"skt" : "kārakam", | |
"eng" : "participant role", | |
"comm" : "Every action involves a number of participants which are spoken of in terms of these abstract semantic categories: they include <a href='#kartr'>agent</a>, <a href='#karma'>patient</a>, <a href='#karanam'>instrument</a>, <a href='#sampradanam'>recipient</a>, etc. These abstract categories are mapped onto nominal and verbal forms morphologically and syntactically." | |
} | |
] | |
} | |
} | |
} |
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