>Hi.
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>Thank you for the resources recomendations, especially for
>http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/DBLM/olcourse/pali.htm
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>I am trying to understand what do "noun stems" mean.
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>"verb stems", I assume are examples of what in English would be "to go" "to eat"
>"to love". But what are noun stems, logically?
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>Thank you, Daniel
Noun stems are the uninflected forms before you add the case endings.
stem: buddha
nominative: buddho
accusative: buddha.m
instrumental: buddhena
etcetera. You'll notice that often the final short a of the stem is elided when adding the ending.
Verb stems are similar. Rather than 'to go', the stem in English would be: go. To this one can add the ending -es, yielding: goes.
In Pali the stem of 'to go' is: gaccha-
To which you can add endings to get:
gacchati, gacchanti, gacchasi (he goes, they go, you go) etc.
I enjoyed the link above, but in the romanized versions it doesn't seem to take into account diacritics at all. There's no visible difference between long and short a, eller between dental and retroflex t, for instance. Or is it just my browser set-up that isn't able to display it?
best regards,
/Rett