A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c4.32
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c4.32
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Desajas are those words which cannot be derived from any Sanskrit word, and are therefore considered to have been borrowed from the aborigines of the country, or invented by the Aryans in post-Sanskritic times; such as पगडी a “turban,” डाब an “unripe cocoa-nut,” डोंगा a “canoe,” and the like.