Cows and Broken Memories
6 yrs agoTake, for example, the word 'babu', the name for the lowly clerk. How many people would recognize its original to be 'prabhu' (lord and master)? Or take 'khatri' from the Punjabi, meaning trader, with its original meaning of warrior (from kshatriya) all but forgotten. We must examine dictionaries (especially old ones) and other texts to see what a familiar word might have
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