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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Afghanistan.
> In India, <-stan> has been back-etymologised to
Sanskrit stHa:na- 'condition, place' (an authentic cognate) < *stah2-no-,
hence ...
Oooops! ... hence "Sanskritised" -sthan.
Piotr