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The etymology at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūnyatā https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūnyatā is helpful. > "Śūnyatā" (Sanskrit) is usually translated as "e
by happy-go-lucky 10y ago
The etymology at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūnyatā https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūnyatā is helpful.
> "Śūnyatā" (Sanskrit) is usually translated as "emptiness," "hollow, hollowness," "voidness." It is the noun form of the adjective śūnya or śhūnya, plus -tā:
> śūnya means "zero," "nothing," "empty" or "void". Śūnya comes from the root śvi, meaning "hollow".
> -tā means "-ness"
There are many loanwords meaning shunya or zero in many Indian languages and they are all adopted from Sanskrit.
- contingencies 10y agoŚūnya comes from the root śvi, meaning "hollow". Interesting etymology, from a philosophical perspective. ie. What came first, the circumscribing matter or the non-matter? In this case, via hollowness, the circumscribing matter.
- kazinator 10y agoAny cognates (even distant ones) in any Indo-European tongues?
- happy-go-lucky 10y agoAre these what you're looking for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary