For what it's worth: viSa-, the cognate of Latin virus, is mostly neuter. 

Antonia

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 15:19 Harry Spier via INDOLOGY, <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

A new area of research.  The possibility of new research papers is endless such as:

"Viral gender in sanskrit, a joint medical and linguistic study"

"Non-retroflexion, evidence of modern loan-words in sanskrit"

"Change and continuity in modern sanskrit discussion, कोरोना, करोना, कोरोण "

"Transmission of linguistic forms in sanskrit"

Harry Spier

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 8:29 AM Joanna Jurewicz <j.jurewicz@uw.edu.pl> wrote:

 कोरोण 

As far as the type of the "n" is concerned.

When you speak "r", the tip of your tongue is almost in the place to say  "ṇ". Just move it a little bit back  and open you mouth when you speak "o", then you will say "ṇ"naturally. Then let it go to say dental "t". As I have observed, in Sanskrit, the tip of the language is much more frequently kept at the back of your mouth than in, e.g. in Polish (or in English, as it seems to me). Here, it is more natural to allow the tip to go forth immediately after "r", as if we already wanted to prepare it to say "t". Thus for Polish speakers dental "n" is more natural. 

I am also sure that it is masculine. Or neutral. Never female!

A very good training for isolation 😉

Joanna

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Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz

Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia

Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies

Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw  

ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

00-927 Warszawa , Poland

Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages

College of Human Sciences

UNISA

Pretoria, RSA

Member of Academia Europaea  

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niedz., 29 mar 2020 o 06:23 Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> napisał(a):

Dear Harry,

     There are similar alternating usages found in Sanskrit as well and authorized by Panini, for example -

विभाषौषधिवनस्पतिभ्यः ८।४।६

काशिकावृत्ति - वनम् इत्येव। ओषधिवाचि यत् पूर्वपदं वनस्पतिवाचि च तत्स्थान् निमित्तादुत्तरस्य वननकारस्य णकार आदेशो भवति विभाषा। ओषधिवाचिभ्यस् तावत् दूर्वावणम्, दूर्वावनम्। मूर्वावणम्, मूर्वावनम्। वनस्पतिभ्यः शिरीषवणम्, शिरीषवनम्। बदरीवणम्, बदरीवनम्।

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 2:46 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Mathew Kapstein: कोरोण

Others कोरोना

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 7:08 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

With so many mahākavi-s on this list, you will have to forgive me this silly amateurism (with Tibetan translation):

कोरोणराक्षसं दृष्ट्वा रामोऽकरोच्चिन्तामेव।

क्लीबमूर्खतर एष अथवा हिंसाकोविदः॥

ཀོ་རོ་ཎ་ཡི་བདུད་མཐོང་ནས།།

ར་མ་ཎ་ཡིས་བསམ་བློ་བྱེད།།

ཆེས་ཞན་བླུན་པོ་ཡིན་པའམ།།

གནོད་པའི་ཐབས་ལ་མཁས་པ་ངེས།།

Matthew

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études, émérite
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago

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