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Tatsama
Tatsama
(
Sanskrit
; ) are
Sanskrit
loanwords
in modern
Indo-Aryan languages
like
Bengali
,
Marathi
,
Oriya
,
Hindi
,
Gujarati
,
Sinhala
and
Dravidian languages
like
Malayalam
,
Kannada
,
Telugu
, and
Tamil
. They belong to a higher and more
erudite
register
than common
words
. That register can be compared to the use of words of Greek origin in English (e.g.
hubris
).
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