in Iranian, as ultimately in the name ofIranitself (from Middle PersianĒrān [šahr],"[Land] of the Iranians," from the genitive plural ofĒr,"Iranian"). The variant*ārya-is found unchanged in Sanskrit, where it referred to the upper classes of ancient Indian society. These words ...
taraoccursconstruedwith the ablative form, corresponds a Hindi sentenceye un-se əmīr hɛ̃, in which no comparative affix is used—literally, “These are rich from (i.e.,in comparison with) those.” Comparable constructions with a postposition meaning “from” occur elsewhere in New ...
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in toto as aśabdānuśāsana(means of instruction of correct speech forms); since the core of Pāṇini’s workcomprisesthe eight chapters ofsūtrasthat serve to describe both the currentlanguageof his time and features particular to Vedic, it also bears the nameAṣṭādhyāyī(“...
Apabhraṃśa contractions, such as-aya-changing to-aüand-iyato-ī, foreshadow New Indo-Aryan, in which the development was extended—e.g., Apabhraṃśapāṇiü‘water’ (Old Indo-Aryanpāniyam), Gujaratipāṇī, Hindipānī. ...