Re: Bangla Desh

On Jan 31, 3:01 am, benlizross <benli...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
noesy_parker wrote:

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On Jan 30, 7:59 pm, Nath Rao <raon...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ranjit_math...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
[...] "Megawati Sukarnoputri" means "Megawati,
daughter of Sukarno" in Sanskrit, with "Sukarno" being the only part
of her name that I don't know to be from Sanskrit.

Is Sukarno Pali for su-karna(H)?

Your guess is as good as mine. I thought it might be su+kar + aMalay
affix, resulting in a meaning "man who is a doer of good" but it
seemed too speculative to propose as the meaning.

Malay? Wasn't he Javanese?

Malay doesn't mean just Bahasa Melayu; it also has a generic meaning.
For example:
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Tagalog_Homepage99/useful_tagalog_phrases3.htm#NUMBERS
Tagalog (Malay root)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_names

The change a > o is common in Javanese, but I can't offhand define the
conditions so as to explain why the first a doesn't change.
Is Megawati good Sanskrit then?

Aspirations are dropped in Malay; it would have a breathy g in
Sanskrit.

I always wondered whether she was named
after an early hydro-electric project?;-)

:-):-)

.

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