Re: Slightly OT: Podcast Tagline in Pali

hallo florian,

lots of words useful for writing "modern" Pali can be found in Buddhadatta's English-Pali Dictionary
and in the Deutsch-Pali Dictionary by Mylius.

Best,
Petra


Am 25.03.2013 um 18:27 schrieb Jim Anderson:

> Hi Florian,
>
> I'm afraid I'm not able to be of much help with your questions. Just a
> couple of comments.
>
> > 1. I found the indeclinable "sāgataṁ" in a dictionary, meaning "welcome",
> > but
> > is there an idiomatic way to say, "Welcome to ..." in Pali? Thinking
> > about it,
> > it seems to be benedictive, "may you be welcome to ...", is this
> > appropriate in Pali?
>
> A.P. Buddhadatta gives an interjection "svāgataṃ" in his English-Pali
> Dictionary. Forms of both svāgata and sāgata are fairly frequent in the Pali
> texts although I'm hardly familiar with their usages. It seems to me that
> the "welcome" in "Welcome to Conlangery" is a verb as in: (we) welcome (you)
> to Conlangery. Buddhadatta gives abhinandati, sampaṭicchati, sammāneti as
> transitive verbs for "welcome" but I'm not sure if any of these would work
> here.
>
> For "Conlangery" I would suggest "Bhāsakārasālā"
> (language-creator-workshop).
>
> Pali is an archaic language (like Latin) and is not normally used for
> communicating in today's world as it lacks the vocabulary needed. However,
> one could use its existing vocabulary for composing grammatical descriptions
> of Pali, e.g., for describing the derivation of a word or the syntactical
> structure of a compound or a sentence. One can find plenty of models from
> which to draw on in the commentaries on the traditional grammars. Although I
> haven't ventured that far yet, I think it would help to further one's
> understanding of and fluency with the language.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jim
>
>



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