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For comparison, one candidate for the longest word in Sanskrit: https://hellenisteukontos.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-is-longest-word-of-sanskrit.html https://hel

by svat 9mo ago

For comparison, one candidate for the longest word in Sanskrit: https://hellenisteukontos.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-is-longest-word-of-sanskrit.html https://hellenisteukontos.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-is-longe... > nirantarāndhakāritā-digantara-kandaladamanda-sudhārasa-bindu-sāndratara-ghanāghana-vr̥nda-sandehakara-syandamāna-makaranda-bindu-bandhuratara-mākanda-taru-kula-talpa-kalpa-mr̥dula-sikatā-jāla-jaṭila-mūla-tala-maruvaka-miladalaghu-laghu-laya-kalita-ramaṇīya-pānīya-śālikā-bālikā-karāra-vinda-galantikā-galadelā-lavaṅga-pāṭala-ghanasāra-kastūrikātisaurabha-medura-laghutara-madhura-śītalatara-saliladhārā-nirākariṣṇu-tadīya-vimala-vilocana-mayūkha-rekhāpasārita-pipāsāyāsa-pathika-lokān It's not actually the longest though; e.g. here's someone asking how to get TeX to hyphenate a routine compound that would be about 1361 characters long in transliteration: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/404690/how-to-make-automatically-break-a-long-compound-word-with-hyphenation https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/404690/how-to-make-a... > Is there really a 797 character long word in Sanskrit? > Yes its ! Some times even the book completely will be like this. What is the solution?

Guestmodinfo 9mo ago
I'm an Indian, but had sanskrit education only a little not much. It just looks like lots of adjectives bunched together. I mean yes it maybe one word but then it's not a single idea it's just lot of adjectives bunched together to show the entire personality of something or somebody
- svat 9mo ago
  • That applies to the Greek word too. Obviously these long “words” are compounds made up of distinct morphemes (similar with German examples like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rindfleischetikettierungs%C3%BCberwachungsaufgaben%C3%BCbertragungsgesetz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rind... or for that matter even shorter English words like antidisestablishmentarianism), the whole thing is one “word” simply because there's a case ending only at the end; you need to read the whole thing as occupying a single role in the sentence it is a part of. • It is not merely a string of independent adjectives; there's a progression of ideas from one morpheme to the next, just as in any compound. Try here: https://dharmamitra.org/?target_lang=english-explained&input_sentence=nirantar%C4%81ndhak%C4%81rit%C4%81-digantara-kandaladamanda-sudh%C4%81rasa-bindu-s%C4%81ndratara-ghan%C4%81ghana-vr%CC%A5nda-sandehakara-syandam%C4%81na-makaranda-bindu-bandhuratara-m%C4%81kanda-taru-kula-talpa-kalpa-mr%CC%A5dula-sikat%C4%81-j%C4%81la-ja%E1%B9%ADila-m%C5%ABla-tala-maruvaka-miladalaghu-laghu-laya-kalita-rama%E1%B9%87%C4%ABya-p%C4%81n%C4%ABya-%C5%9B%C4%81lik%C4%81-b%C4%81lik%C4%81-kar%C4%81ra-vinda-galantik%C4%81-galadel%C4%81-lava%E1%B9%85ga-p%C4%81%E1%B9%ADala-ghanas%C4%81ra-kast%C5%ABrik%C4%81tisaurabha-medura-laghutara-madhura-%C5%9B%C4%ABtalatara-saliladh%C4%81r%C4%81-nir%C4%81kari%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%87u-tad%C4%ABya-vimala-vilocana-may%C5%ABkha-rekh%C4%81pas%C4%81rita-pip%C4%81s%C4%81y%C4%81sa-pathika-lok%C4%81n https://dharmamitra.org/?target_lang=english-explained&input...

by svat 9mo ago

Guestmodinfo 9mo ago

I'm an Indian, but had sanskrit education only a little not much. It just looks like lots of adjectives bunched together. I mean yes it maybe one word but then it's not a single idea it's just lot of adjectives bunched together to show the entire personality of something or somebody

svat 9mo ago
• That applies to the Greek word too. Obviously these long “words” are compounds made up of distinct morphemes (similar with German examples like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rindfleischetikettierungs%C3%BCberwachungsaufgaben%C3%BCbertragungsgesetz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rind... or for that matter even shorter English words like antidisestablishmentarianism), the whole thing is one “word” simply because there's a case ending only at the end; you need to read the whole thing as occupying a single role in the sentence it is a part of. • It is not merely a string of independent adjectives; there's a progression of ideas from one morpheme to the next, just as in any compound. Try here: https://dharmamitra.org/?target_lang=english-explained&input_sentence=nirantar%C4%81ndhak%C4%81rit%C4%81-digantara-kandaladamanda-sudh%C4%81rasa-bindu-s%C4%81ndratara-ghan%C4%81ghana-vr%CC%A5nda-sandehakara-syandam%C4%81na-makaranda-bindu-bandhuratara-m%C4%81kanda-taru-kula-talpa-kalpa-mr%CC%A5dula-sikat%C4%81-j%C4%81la-ja%E1%B9%ADila-m%C5%ABla-tala-maruvaka-miladalaghu-laghu-laya-kalita-rama%E1%B9%87%C4%ABya-p%C4%81n%C4%ABya-%C5%9B%C4%81lik%C4%81-b%C4%81lik%C4%81-kar%C4%81ra-vinda-galantik%C4%81-galadel%C4%81-lava%E1%B9%85ga-p%C4%81%E1%B9%ADala-ghanas%C4%81ra-kast%C5%ABrik%C4%81tisaurabha-medura-laghutara-madhura-%C5%9B%C4%ABtalatara-saliladh%C4%81r%C4%81-nir%C4%81kari%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%87u-tad%C4%ABya-vimala-vilocana-may%C5%ABkha-rekh%C4%81pas%C4%81rita-pip%C4%81s%C4%81y%C4%81sa-pathika-lok%C4%81n https://dharmamitra.org/?target_lang=english-explained&input...