Talk:ছোৱালী

Etymology

@AryamanA What do you think about the etymology? śāvaka > chāka > chākar (somehow the r/l came) > chaur > chawar > sawal > sual (Poor arrangement though) Sagir Ahmed Msa (talk) 18:01, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

@Sagir Ahmed Msa: -r/-l extensions are quite common, so that's fine. But śāvaka(ra) would lead to sokrā in Hindi, not छोकरा (chokrā), so I don't think śāvaka will work. But Turner's dictionary reconstructs *chokara, and is a real word. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 19:39, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

@AryamanA Sanskrit has another word ছল্লী (challī, “offspring”) and Assamese has its cognate ছলি (soli, “child, offspring”). Sagir Ahmed Msa (talk) 07:12, 22 February 2018 (UTC)