Ushta Ve! O What a Tangled Web We Weave as We Practice to Deceive! Although this is directly mainly at my dear friend Kaishosro Oshtiori, it is something for all to ponder when we encounter these self proclaimed scholars. Linguists, Gradutes of philology etc, who qre in reality sham or is it Chams, scholars pseudi intellectual and dekluded linguists. I do not know if KO and others remember an exchange her with one of these Shams (or is Chams? :) About a month or so ago. Roughly I was berrated as an ignoramus because according the scholar, ( sham or Cham) two independent Gathic words could not form a compound. Well if you look for who is arguing truth and who is a sham/Chams in this arguement you need not go far: From Wikipedia A bahuvrihi compound (from Sanskrit बहुव्रीहि, bahuvrīhi, denoting a rich man) is a type of compound that denotes a referent by specifying a certain characteristic or quality the referent possesses. A bahuvrihi is exocentric, so that the compound is not a hyponym of its head. For instance, a sabretooth (smil-odon) is neither a sabre nor a tooth, but a feline with saber-like teeth. In Sanskrit bahuvrihis, the last constituent is a noun, more strictly, a nominal stem, while the whole compound is an adjective. In Vedic Sanskrit the accent is regularly on the first member (tatpurusha rāja-pútra a kings son, but bahuvrihi rājá-putra having kings as sons, viz. rājá-putra-, m., father of kings, rājá-putrā-, f., mother of kings), with the exception of a number of non-nominal prefixes such as the privative a; the word bahuvrīhí is itself likewise an exception to this rule. From Dictionary: ba·hu·vri·hi [bah-hoo-vree-hee] noun, plural ba·hu·vri·his. Grammar . a compound noun or adjective consisting of two constituents, the first of which is adjectival and describes the person or object denoted by the second, which is nominal: the compound as a whole denotes or describes a person or object having what is denoted by the second element In case you readers do not know, the grammatical rules in Sanskrit and Old Avestan are exactly the same. Thus the bahuvrihi applies to both languages. Its also worth to note that such arrangement is not unique to bahuvrihis, as there are other compounds which do the same. However more specifically, the sham(Chams) scholar argued that compounds or names are not from in airyan languages such as Sanskrit and Avestan, by agglutination. This a bold faced lie, as you can see for yourselves: A) Wikipedia One notable feature of the agglutinative nominal system of Sanskrit is the very common use of nominal compounds (samāsa), which may be huge (10+ or even 30+ words[1][2][3]), as in some languages such as German.[citation needed] Nominal compounds occur with various structures, but morphologically speaking they are essentially the same: each noun (or adjective) is in its (weak) stem form, with only the final element receiving case inflection In other word there is not agglutination in Sanskrit and thius in Avestan but there is whole system of agglutination. But lets go on: Some examples of nominal compounds include: 1. Avyayībhāva: The first member of this type of nominal compound is an indeclinable, to which another word is added so that the new compound also becomes indeclinable (i.e., avyaya). Examples: yathā+śakti, upa+kriṣṇam (near kriṣṇa), etc. In avyayībhāva compounds, first member has primacy (pūrva-pada-pradhāna), i.e., the whole compound behaves like an indeclinable due to the nature of the first part which is indeclinable. 2. Tatpuruṣa (determinative): Unlike the avyayībhāva compounds, in Tatpuruṣa compounds second member has primacy (uttara-pada-pradhāna) There are many tatpuruṣas, one for each of the nominal cases, and a few others besides. 3. Karmadhāraya (descriptive) 4. nañ-samāsa: Example: na + brāhamaṇa = abrāhamaṇa, in which n vanishes and only the a of na remains. But with words beginning with a vowel this a becomes an: na+aśva > (na > a > an) anaśva. 5. Dvandva (co-ordinative): These consist of two or more noun stems, connected in sense with and (copulative or coordinative). There are mainly two kinds of द्वन्द्व (dvandva pair) constructions in Sanskrit. There are another 5 nominal agglutinatives, which I wont list here for lack of space, but its more that sufficient to expose the sham (Chams?) scholar for what he is. I will not state what he is because is so obvious. Hamazor
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 18:57:22 +0000