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Yāska

References

• Sarup, Lakshman (ed.) (1967), The Nighaṇṭu and the Nirukta. The oldest Indian treatise on etymology, philology, and sementics. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
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Texts

• Nirukta
  The Nirukta is one of the oldest Sanskrit linguistic texts. It comments on and etymologises Sanskrit words, many among them from the Nighaṇṭu, a list of Vedic words. The Nirukta has received a few...

Linguistic Traditions

• Nirukta/nirvacana
  Nirukta/Nirvacana is the native tradition of semantic derivation or etymology. It is traditionally regarded as one of the six ancillary Vedic disciplines (vedāṅga). The most im...

Linguistic Fields

• Semantics
  Semantics is the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions, and more specifically the study of the literal meaning of linguistic expressions (in contrast with pragmatics, the study of the u...