THIS repository is under construction
Derivations of headwords in the Monier-Williams (1899) dictionary
This Sanskrit dictionary was developed by Monier-Williams to make obvious many of the interrelations of Sanskrit words. The author discusses this in his preface to the dictionary, particularly in Section II.
The markup of the Cologne digitization of the dictionary recognizes this 4-level system and thus makes feasible computer-assisted investigations of this system. The list displays (for instance, here and here ) show the primary relations.
The current repository should be viewed as one such investigation. In particular, it aims to provide a systematic identification of the derivation of the substantives (nouns, adjectives, indeclineables). This identification makes use of the 4-level system as much as possible.
There are readme files in the various sub-directories which describe the methodological and procedural details of the computations, as well as the data sources.
Feb 9, 2016. The main output to look at is step3/analysis2.txt There remain about 9000 records without derivation (approx. 5%). Many of these will be resolved by an external source of 'kta' forms of roots and of gerunds of roots. step2/analysis.txt is an earlier version. It left about 30,000 (15%) of records without derivation.