No one said it is from Arabic. It could be from any of a number of languages. The point is that the west to east movement is plausible long before the Delhi Sultanate- something that is confirmed by numerous examples without awaiting my minor contribution. Matthew
On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 18:51, Hock, Hans Henrich <[[email protected]](mailto:On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 18:51, Hock, Hans Henrich <<a href=)> wrote: > OK, but jagri cannot be from Arabic, which has kbd > >> On Aug 8, 2025, at 11:19, Matthew Kapstein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Overall, I am not sure. In an article that I will share with the list when >> it’s done, I think I demonstrate quite conclusively a west Semitic, probably >> Arabic, input in a 10th c Sanskrit text from Kashmir, with which there was >> some intertextuality with the KCT. But of course I do not ask that you >> accept my arguments until you have seen them. >> >> best, >> Matthew >> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 17:44, Hock, Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY < >> [[email protected]](mailto:On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 17:44, Hock, >> Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY <<a href=)> wrote: >> >>> Overall, I think Madhav’s suggestion that jagri is a vernacularized form of >>> yak.rt, (re)borrowed into Sanskrit, makes the best sense. Hindi-Urdu jigar, >>> by contrast, is most likely one of the many Persian words that came into >>> the language during the extended period of Persianate Muslim rule >>> >>> Best wishes >>> >>> Hans Henrich >>> >>>> On Aug 8, 2025, at 10:15, Madhav Deshpande <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> It is indeed! >>>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM Hock, Hans Henrich < [email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Shouldn’t that be yak.rt? >>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 8, 2025, at 09:59, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> [https://claude.ai/share/2fe502db-185f-447d-b742-88e87ff1c17c](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://claude.ai/share/2fe502db-185f-447d-b742-88e87ff1c17c__;!!DZ3fjg!_WKarraAktCE2BosanC9Ju9VfbwFiIzLmd1OK4_ZcSR4merfVrsNbd2ofD1GOkmBQaMN1ZxVE5C40zKvmwL_gcXzDILU$) >>>>>> >>>>>> Some interesting connections of the Persian word jigar to Sanskrit word >>>>>> taker for liver. >>>>>> >>>>>> Madhav Deshpande >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology__;!!DZ3fjg!_WKarraAktCE2BosanC9Ju9VfbwFiIzLmd1OK4_ZcSR4merfVrsNbd2ofD1GOkmBQaMN1ZxVE5C40zKvmwL_gWjVVC3_$
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