Dear Florent,
Thank you for the quote about the history in Burma, very interesting
that the Saddaniti is widely known.
Op 26-jan-2009, om 3:54 heeft flrobert2000 het volgende geschreven:

> So the questioon could be "In what sense (or in which sense)
> is "dhaatu" called "dhaatu"". And the answer "A root is what bears
> its own meaning."
>
> If we take gacchati (gamu + a + ti) for example, a is paccaya
> (conjugational sign), 'ti' is aakhyaatavibhatti and has the three
> meanings of tense (present), person (third person) and number
> (plural), and gamu just bears its own meaning 'go' or 'to go'.

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N: I have been thinking about dhaatu. The root of the verb gives the
meaning, and it is the smallest unit that cannot be analysed further,
thus it is like an element. Perhaps that is the reason why the verbal
root is called an element? As you explain, in addition there are
suffixes etc, that give more meanings, tense, etc.
I looked in the files: verbal stems, but I do not quite know what to
do, it looks very complicated. This is for further study of the
Saddaniti, I think.
Nina.



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