Tobacco (rolled in cryptography)

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 06:33 PM 9/10/97 +0200, Dominique writes:

>        The phonetical laws fail when a word is borrowed, but borrowing of
>words is rare and, usually, a word is borrowed when the thing is borrowed,
>just because it was unnamed before. Hence, universal words are unlikely to
>be borrowed.
>        Regards,
>Dominique
>
>Dominique THILLAUD
>Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
>
>

Is this confined to nouns? What is the current thinking concerning one
dhAtu (root) representing many actions (e.g., `divu krIda vijigIsha
vyavahara dyuti
stuti mOda mada swapna kanti gatishu') and one action being represented by
many dhAtus in sanskrit.

sarma.