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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.06.13 (05) [EN]<br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Re “Mahl” and Sanskrit Maha: Aha Marlou, hence German Mahlzeit,
Dutch maaltijd. The question then becomes if ones “gemaal” is the one that eats
at your table? The Mall is certainly an important place for American shoppers,
but becomes (again) a meeting place for teenagers.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Also Sanskrit Maha: Is that also the root of the Himalayas Ron? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Jacqueline</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Seattle WA. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Etymology<br><br>Hi, Jacqueline!<br></span><p style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Also Sanskrit Maha: Is that also the root of the Himalayas Ron? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You may be onto something there, o cleverest of neighbors.<br><br>"Himalaya" comes from Sanskrit <i>Him</i></span></span><i>ālaya</i><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (हिमालय) which is usually translated as "Abode of Snow".<br>
<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It may well be a contracted form of </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hima</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(हिम) 'snow' and </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">mah</i><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ā</i><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">laya</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (महालय) 'great abode' </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. If so, It may be best translated as "Great Abode of Snow".</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This Sanskrit name is used in pretty much all of the descended Prakrit languages, e.g. Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Newari <i>Himālay </i>(हिमालय), Punjabi <i>Himālay </i>(ਹਿਮਾਲਯ), Gujarati <i>Himālay </i>(હિમાલય), Bengali <i>Himaloy </i>(হিমালয়).</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> And it was imported into non-Indo-European languages of Asia as well, even into Tibetan </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">as </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>Himalaya</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (</span></span><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CRon%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style>
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</style><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: windowtext;" lang="BO">ཧིམལཡ་</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">). <br><br>But in Nepali the word </span></span><i>himal</i> (<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">हिमल</span></span> < *<i>himala</i>)<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> alone means 'snow-covered mountain'. Many significant Himalayan mountains have this in their names.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></p><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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