Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c7.39

c7.39

We shall also find in the Pâli, and even in the passage placed before you, examples of another phenomenon presented by a growing language. Several new words, unknown to Sanskrit, but formed from Sanskrit roots, have come into use. Such is मनापो, derived very likely from मनस् ‘mind’ or ‘heart’, and आप् ‘to obtain’ ‘to meet,’ so that the word signifies ‘something that comes up to the wishes of the heart’, ‘pleasing’. The word सच्चे is from चेत् with स prefixed, which स seems to be the same as the nominative singular of the masculine of तद्. For, it is so used in Sanskrit before चेत्, though it has there an independent sense; as in स चेन्निदौहित्रस्तलक्षणोपपन्नः (Śâkuntala). Often used together in this way, the two words formed a compound expression, and, the independent character of स being forgotten, it came to be looked upon as one word. In the same way, सन्निक must have come into existence from the frequent use of such expressions as तस्सन्निकं, ब्राह्मणसन्निकं &c. made up of the genitive singular of a noun or pronoun ending in अ and अन्तिक. The portion सन्निक then came to be regarded as an independent word, and was used as such. Another new word is फासु or फासुक ‘agreeable’, ‘pleasant’, corresponding to such a Sanskrit word as स्पर्श or स्पर्शुक formed from the analogy of such verbal derivatives as भिक्षु, इच्छु, or लाभुक, पाबुक &c., and meaning ‘that which is or deserves to be touched’, or ‘pleasant to the touch’. Other instances are पिलन्धन ‘an ornament’, पेय्याल ‘plentiful’ &c.