Re: Religion-Names in Conlangs. Or At Least in Mine. :)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 24, 1998, 13:22 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Steg Belsky wrote:
> > buddhism: how do you pronounce "buddha" in it's original language? =
do
> > buddhists call themselves the equivalent of "buddh-ists" in the origi=
nal
> > language? is there an original language of buddhism? (you can see i
> > don't know that much about buddhism)
>
> The original language of Buddhism was whatever Buddha spoke. I'm not
> sure which lang he spoke, tho. I think that <dh> represents /d_h/,
> "aspirated" d.
Yep, that's it. The Buddha spoke not Sanskrit, but one of the Prakrits,P=
ali I think (as
that's the language that many of the oldest Buddhist texts
are written in).
> > wicca: is it pronounced /'wI k@/ ?
>
> In English it is. At least that's how I've always heard it pronounced.
Yeah, that's how I've heard most people pronounce it. But in terms
of etymology, it's OE, I think. Isn't that the OE word from which we
get the modern English "witch"?
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Tom Wier <twier@...>
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