Etymology of kSatriya

[DR.S.KALYANARAMAN]

On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> 
> DR.S.KALYANARAMAN said:
> > 
> > It is, therefore, reasonable to propose that the early meaning of kSatr 
> > was linked, not to power but to agriculture.
> 
> Forgive me banging on at the same old drum, but: meaning comes from
> sentences, not etymolgies.
> 
> Surely the early meaning of the words of the "k.satra" group is to be
> understood from studying how the authors of the early Sanskrit texts
> used the words, not from comparison with similar-sounding words in
> Kannada meaning "slush"?
> 
> Dominik
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Wujastyk makes a good beat on the drum. If we keep quoting sentences,
we wil end up writing books for each morpheme.
I suppose, lexemes are not inventions but are based on meanings derived
from usage in sentence or pithy epigraphs. Some languages of course
boast of even poems.
Dr. Kalyanaraman.