Dear Friends,

This morning, while on my constitutional walk around the lake near my house, I sat and watched one tree shed most of its leaves in a few short minutes. It reminds me of one of my favourite Sanskrit words - nipalāśam - as softly or silently as the falling of leaves.

As the leaves fell, they made this crackling/scraping noise while passing the other soon to follow leaves.

It made me wonder:
1) Is there a word describing the sound of leaves not falling softly or silently?
2) Is there a word for the sound of a leaf hitting the ground?


All the best,

パトリック　マッカートニー
Patrick McCartney, PhD
Research Affiliate - Organization for Identity and Cultural Development (OICD), Kyoto
Research Associate - Nanzan University Anthropological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
Visiting Fellow - South and South-east Asian Studies Department, Australian National University
Member - South Asia Research Institute (SARI), Australian National University

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bodhapūrvam calema ;-)