Dear George,
Thank you. This makes sense to me. When we learn the roots or stems
of the verbs, we get already their meaning. Thus, they bear or
contain their own meaning.
Nina.
Op 20-jan-2009, om 11:48 heeft gdbedell het volgende geschreven:

> That is, it is the linguistic notion of 'root' which is being
> specified
> here. The idea of 'having meaning by itself' is in contrast to
> those elements of language
> (vikara.na and vibhatti, or suffixes) which convey meaning only in
> combination with roots.

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