Another revealing and independent evidence of pīlu’s connection with the meaning of tooth comes from the widespread Indic phytonym of Salvadora persica, known in the western world as ‘toothbrush tree’, and in Arabic countries as ‘miswak’ tree; ‘miswak’ meaning ‘tooth-cleaning-stick’ (...
The alternately arranged leaves are green in color and 6 to 15 cm size by length and width and has 5 to 7 shallow lobes.The genus name Jatropha derives from the Greek words 'jatros' (meaning: doctor) and 'tropha' (meaning: food), Curcas is the common name for physic nut in India....
Letters (really the sounds they represent) combine to represent units of meaning, morphemes, for the language they represent, whereas logograms individually represent the morphemes directly. So really letters are equivalent to, say, the strokes of a Chinese logogram. In effect you are comparing ...