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Oblique Note: The oblique case precedes all postpositions. There is no space between the stem and the postposition. Locative Note: -त(-ta) is a postposition.
*Note: Word-final ए(e) in neuter words is alternatively written with the anusvara and pronounced as अ(a). Oblique Note: For most postpostions, the oblique genitive can be optionally inserted between the stem and the postposition.
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European*ḱHl-eh₂(“stone”), which, if correct, is also the source of Old Armenianսալ(sal, “stone, rock”). This theory was tentatively favored by Mayrhofer, albeit with strong reservations,[1][2] and has since come to be favored by Armenologists including Martirosyan.[3]
^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “śilā́-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 640
^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) “śilā́”, in Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 343
^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “sal”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 563–565