tatsama

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तत्सम (tatsama).

Tatsama was originally employed to refer to those inherited Prakrit words that were identical in form with Sanskrit; later it came to refer to learned loans introduced into the post-Prakritic speech as well. Traditionally, the term was used for both inherited words that were unmodified in form, and learned words. However from a strict linguistic point of view, the term refers only to learned borrowings from Sanskrit.[1]

tatsama (plural tatsamas or tatsama)

1. (lexicography) A Sanskrit learned loanword used in a South Asian language.

   Hypernym: learned borrowing

   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 298:

     However, beyond lexis, the Macmillan range includes other adaptations, such as IPA encoding which reflects Indian English pronunciation, and etymologies that distinguish between "tatsama" and "tadbhava" terms, based on McGregor (1992).

• tadbhava
• semi-tatsama