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37THEN4-819.45 the end of 1979 of a hookah is dirty, but it is called 9747
meaning also 'clean'. खारा 'salty' is called मीठा 'sweet'. वाढी ‘knife' is also called YC which also means that which has increased'.
5. In the non-standard Sanskrit of Jain Prabandha works many fanciful etymologies are advanced. Pk. Yf6377 'shoe' derived form Sk. 341.466 is re-Sanskritised as mufen beneficial for the life' ! Guj. 31 old man is Sanskritised as STATEकरः 'he whose hands dangle'. दोहरो (दोहड) 'a meter of that name' is Sanskritised as greza 'a pot of milk' (probably based on the wrong alternative name 1975, which is a different metre). 376154, 374T3, as etymologized in the Anuyogadvāra are in line with the above given back-formations.
6. We however know that the tradition of giving fanciful, artificial or imaginary etymologies goes back to Yāska's fits to (about fifth century B.C.), and it continues later in the explanations given in the literature on the guifgha and still later in the one-letter dictionaries (&rit Toa 731)Among the illustrations cited above from the Anuyogadvāra the etymologies of the words Sk. 3trg (Pk. 374183), 36, 47197, Pk facCM, Sk TCUT, Pk YAICI, Sk. Hers, #CMI, Pk Hoa (related Sk. words $157, 57, 7 ), Pk. 9ften (Sk. Foral, Guj. समळी), Sk. समुद्ग are unknown. भ्रमर is connected with 44 to wander' (with-372-derivative). Het is based on Sk. महत् 'great' and समुद्र derives from सम्+उद्र (the same root as that of 36 'water'). is in the same class as the popular names given to some insects etc. (e.g. fungus is called in Guj. farisha the hat of a cat'). In the case of the use of ferai (auspicious' for that which is really considered feral 'inauspicious') and Farg'sweet' (which is actually 3769 'acid'), the verbal taboo has prevailed, under the belief that if an unauspicious word is spoken the harmful thing may possibly materialize. The terrible Vedic god se
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