Re: Etymology of kaṇha / kāḷa ?

This is what I know of these two words:

kaala is basically time. Day time light; night black (especially without the moon). The meaning is contextually determined.

Ka.nha is dark (or black) opposite is white (sukka)

The Sanskrit equivalent of Ka.nha is krishna (god),

It appears that they are separate words.

With friendly thought

D.C.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Florian Weps fmw@... [palistudy] <palistudy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Dear all

recently, I came across the synonyms kaṇha and kāḷa. I got the idea that these
two might be variant spellings or dialectal differences - retroflex ṇh and ḷ,
the latter between vowels here, seem to be very similar sounds.

Is there any basis to this understanding of mine?

Kind regards,
Florian

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