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Wiese, Harald: Sanskrit as an Indo-European Language, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1238

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ISBN 978-3-948791-75-9 (PDF)
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09/12/2023

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Harald Wiese

Sanskrit as an Indo-European Language

Students of Sanskrit can choose among several good textbooks. Whichever they may choose, learning Sanskrit is a daunting task. This book is not an alternative textbook for learning Sanskrit. Instead, it is to accompany these textbooks and written in the hope to make Sanskrit learning easier by explaining words and grammatical forms from an Indo-European point of view. Consider, for example Old Indian ad which means “to eat”, but is also historically related to both English (abbreviated by E) eat and New High German (NHG) essen. There was an Indo-European (IE) root ed that branched out into all these words over some millennia. Even E tooth and NHG Zahn stem from IE ed.

Harald Wiese is Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Leipzig. He has been interested in Sanskrit and "Indian economics" for over a decade. By the latter he means the application of microeconomic methods to ancient Indian texts.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Title
i-iv
Contents
v-x
Foreword
xi-xii
Preface
xiii-xiv
A. Introduction
1-18
B. Sound laws
19-79
C. Word formation
81-154
D. Conjugations
155-219
E. Declensions
221-272
F. Selective etymological dictionary
273-409
Bibliography
411-414
Index
415-471
Backcover
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