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yvanspijk.bsky.social
3/ ... influence from the verb ‘heißen’, one of its meanings being “to order”.

*Aiskō(ja)n and its descendants are related to Russian иска́ть (iskátʹ, “to seek”), Lithuanian ‘ieškóti’ (“to seek; to search”), and Sanskrit इ॒च्छति॑ (iccháti, “to desire; to seek”).
January 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
annaleen.bsky.social
Heck yeah Sanskrit
January 4, 2026 at 12:59 AM
kodilkro.bsky.social
Moin & Glück auf Sanskrit. 🍀
Und erfolgreiches buddeln!
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
yesthatsablusky.bsky.social
that one was apparently a transliteration of a Sanskrit word misinterpreted as a similar (and ~identically written) Arabic word that meant "fold", and then translated with the Latin word for "fold" which was "sinus"
January 5, 2026 at 11:02 PM
djinnandtonic.bsky.social
Many people are saying! 👁 🇺🇸 🕉
The latest draft of my "Columbia in the style of a Hindu goddess" poster. It's a complex composition, but centered, in a jharoka, against a pastel nebula, is the goddess Columbia, with six additional arms, carrying various objects and making gestures. She stands against the yantra of the goddess Durga, which glows in the background Below this is an eight-line chant, an adaptation of the Battle Hymn of the Republic in Sanskrit, complete with dandas and numbering. Above her is the title: Deviranagita, "The Battle Hymn of the Goddess." The shirorekha of the title forms a single-line border frame, which also serves as the shirorekha of the usual signature for my posters, in Hindi: Baker & Godwin, Printers, Printing-House Square, across from City Hall, New York. In the margins, written in pencil, Hindi renderings of "Who now shall be the paladins of the goddess?" and "How long must they kick us before we shall all be Wide-Awakes?"
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
shlead.bsky.social
Ixora: the name derives from Ishvara, a Hindu divinity, from the Sanskrit īśvara, meaning "ruler, lord."

A tropical plant, it also grows in Florida, and is widely known as West Indian jasmine. - Wikipedia.

#ColorADay #RedWed

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
Red ixora and green leaves. Camera: iPhone SE (1st Generation). December 2022. Coimbatore, India.
December 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
mattboot.bsky.social
it's interesting that Ancient Egyptian (Coptic ⲟⲩⲟⲉⲓ /woy/ < <wy> */way/) and Proto-Indo-European (*wáy) have the exact same "woe!" interjection.

this seems like either a wanderwort or one of those para-linguistic utterances that keep reinventing themselves (papa, mama, caca)
entry for Coptic ouoei in Cerny's etymological dictionary. interjection 'woe' from <wy> 'woe' wiktionary page for *wai: Descendants Proto-Anatolian: *uwáy Hittite: [script needed] (uwai) Albanian: vaj Proto-Balto-Slavic: *wái, *uwái Latvian: vai Lithuanian: vai̇̃ Proto-Slavic: *uvy Proto-Celtic: *wai (see there for further descendants) Proto-Germanic: *wai (see there for further descendants) >? Proto-Hellenic: *wái >? Ancient Greek: αἴ (aí), αἶ (aî), αἰαῖ (aiaî), οἴ (oí), οἶ (oî), ὀῐ̈́ (oĭ̈́) — Ionic >? Ancient Greek: οὐαί (ouaí) (possibly) Proto-Indo-Iranian: *wáy, *uwáy Proto-Indo-Aryan: *uwáy Sanskrit: उवे (uvé) Kashmiri: وای (wāy) Proto-Iranian: *wáy Avestan: 𐬬𐬀𐬫𐬋𐬌 (vayōi) Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (wʾd /⁠wāy⁠/), 𐫇𐫀𐫏 (wʾy /⁠wāy⁠/) Persian: وای (vây) → Turkish: vay Parthian: 𐫇𐫀𐫏 (wʾy /⁠wāy⁠/) Zazaki: way → Old Armenian: վայ (vay) Armenian: վայ (vay) Proto-Italic: *wai Latin: vae (see there for further descendants)
January 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
crossgenesis.vtubers.social
(Sanskrit: rakṣ).

Though it also has Arabic/Persian meaning of dancing (Arabic/Persian: raqs)... but Astra isn't a dancer! Nor the fanbase or this robot!
January 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
kodilkro.bsky.social
Vielen herzlichen Dank Sanskrit.
Alles Gute für Euch!
January 1, 2026 at 8:58 AM
catbus.phd
i'm about to give up on hoping the general public realizing our political parties both serve capitalism and what 'the people' want is as relevant to politicians as the contents of Sanskrit tablets
December 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
katinthestars.bsky.social
What’s happening now is meant to imprint your memory. It’s supposed to serve as a permanent warning to you & your kin. Science calls it epigenetics. Spirit calls it inevitable. Bhavitavyatā Is its name in Sanskrit.

Not fate, but consequence.

When will we ever learn❔
January 4, 2026 at 12:36 PM
bridgesvictoria.bsky.social
Happy new year from Milo and his team 🐾

Friendliness (‘maitri’ in Sanskrit) is the 1st of the ‘Brahmaviharas’ - the antidotes to the suffering (‘dukha’) of life

Let’s look after ourselves and each other in 2026. Kindness overflows from a full cup 🦋

#yogaphilospphy #brahmaviharas #patanjali
January 1, 2026 at 1:14 PM
amos-family.com
I spent a lot of time learning Devanagari script (what Sanskrit uses) but it was incredibly difficult because of aphantasia. Now I can only "imagine" a couple of characters because of muscle memory writing them...
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
scalzi.com
"Netflix and Chill" has been replaced by "Sanskrit and Floating," please update your cultural references to stay hip with the kids
mementomorty.bsky.social Memento (new) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10d
Hey sorry about the whole speaking in ancient languages and levitating thing last night. I had a really great time and would love to see you again.
December 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
tpblakewell.bsky.social
Sacred Prayer for the New 2026 Year 🪔🙏
​A digital page titled "Sacred Prayer" framed by decorative flourishes at the top and bottom. The center contains a centered, italicized prayer followed by the word "AUM" and a large Sanskrit Om symbol. The text of the prayer reads: "A bow to our celestial origin, as we undertake the study and seek knowledge, may we be given one pointed attention, may we be protected, may we have happiness, may we be given strength, may spiritual knowledge shine before us, may we always have peace, may speech rest in my mind, may my mind rest in my speech, may you be before my eyes, and bring true knowledge to me. May that truth protect us. May it protect my teacher. May reality protect us. May we live in peace. May there be peace."
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
kodilkro.bsky.social
Das hab ich heute auch im Bett hinbekommen.

Moin & Glück auf Sanskrit. 🍀
December 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
lameensouag.bsky.social
Persian hasn't retained case (rɑ is a clitic). I don't know offhand if what's left of Hindi case is inherited, but if so, it's a pale shadow indeed of what you see in Sanskrit or the average Balto-Slavic language.
January 1, 2026 at 9:39 PM
enwiktionary.bsky.social
#Wiktionary #FWOTD for 4 January 2026: “अश्वत्थ” (aśvatthá; Sanskrit)—“ashvattha, sacred fig (a tree of species Ficus religiosa); a vessel made from ashvattha wood; [...]” en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktion...
An ashvattha or sacred fig (Ficus religiosa) at Jetavana Monastery, Sravasti, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was grown from a sapling of the original Bodhi Tree at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, where the Buddha is said to have gained enlightenment. By Bpilgrim (CC-BY-SA 2.5 Generic; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anandabodhi.jpg).
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
joyelephant.bsky.social
1/365 "Avec amour et dévotion" 3in²/7.6cm² #2026tinyart
Goal for 2026 is to create tiny art every day. the 1st one is #bhagavadgita verse 9.26 Sanskrit & #français . a favorite verse of mine & this year I hope to memorize it. 🙏💕🌿🪻🍎💧
#JanuArty #dailyart #tinyart #mixedmedia #watercolour #aquarelles
January 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
cacheblaster.bsky.social
Apparently oranges were imported from Asia with a Sanskrit name, and the use of the word “orange” to refer to the color instead of the fruit comes a century or two later.

www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen...
The Etymology of the "Orange"
Why did we give our favorite citrus a name that rhymes with almost nothing? A look at the fruit's juicy linguistic origins
www.bonappetit.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
josiahhawthorne.bsky.social
Oh, how charmingly rustic -- do you peasants not pronounce the first "n" in "norange?" How delightful, hoo hoo hoo. Let me try, let me try... 'orange! Ha ha, now I did it too!
late 14c., in reference to the fruit of the orange tree (late 13c. as a surname), from Old French orange, orenge (12c., Modern French orange), from Medieval Latin pomum de orenge, from Italian arancia, originally narancia (Venetian naranza), an alteration of Arabic naranj, from Persian narang, from Sanskrit naranga-s "orange tree," a word of uncertain origin. Not used as a color word in English until 1510s (orange color), "a reddish-yellow color like that of a ripe orange." Colors similar to modern orange in Middle English might be called citrine or saffron. Loss of initial n- probably is due to confusion with the definite article (as in une narange, una narancia), but also perhaps was by influence of French or "gold." The name of the town of Orange in France (see Orangemen) perhaps was deformed by the name of the fruit. Orange juice is attested from 1723.
January 1, 2026 at 4:44 AM
stellaedgecomb.com
All three of those are just names that mean things in either Japanese or Sanskrit. Pun names are for less important or comedy characters, it's why he's named Manfred Von Karma instead of Heywood Jashootme.
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
sofia.meangirls.online
Like in English there's just "man" (singular) and "men" (plural)

But in Sanskrit there's "नरः" (singular), "नरौ" (dual) and "नराः" (plural). You always have to use a different ending when there's exactly two.
December 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
madmonkmurph.bsky.social
That moment when you thought you downlaoded a rare and obscure manga succesfully to find out that its in a different language is a drag but hey now I have Angel Dentetsu in what I can only presume could be a Sanskrit based language. Not to find it in Englysh.
December 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
djinnandtonic.bsky.social
Besides a suitable jharokha, pretty much all the elements have been refined/gathered, I just need to fuck around with the composition so that it doesn't look like a pile of miscellaneous assets
Columbia in the manner of a Hindu goddess (eight arms, holding many objects, doing an Abhayamudra gesture etc.). Behind her, the Durga Yantra. In Classical Sanskrit, a translation of the Battle Hymn of the Republic: "My eyes see the glory of the Goddess's arrival; She has shattered the brimming vessels of sin with fierce valor; The doomsday lightning of her terrible sword Is unleashed; Her Truth indeed marches forward." Beneath that, the usual tagline (Baker & Godwin, Printers, Printing-House Square, across from City Hall, N.Y.)
December 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM