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English
Etymology
From Prakrit + -ism; compare Prakritic, Prakritize.
Pronunciation
Noun
Prakritism (plural Prakritisms)
- A (usually Sanskrit) word borrowed from a Prakrit, especially one showing the characteristic phonological developments separating the Prakrits from Sanskrit.
- Coordinate term: Sanskritism
1872, John Beames, Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India, volumes II: The Noun and Pronoun, Trübner and Co., page 25:1 This constant use of sabbai in Chand may be nothing more than a Prakritism for the nom. pl. of Skr. sarvve.
1930, Maurice Bloomfield, Franklin Edgerton, “XIV: Vocalic Liquids and Other Vowels”, in Vedic Variants: A Study of the Variant Readings in the Repeated Mantras of the Veda, volume II: Phonetics, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, page 295:With this chapter we once more enter definitely into the sphere of Prakritism. In a considerable number of cases the variations seem to be, in fact, strictly Prakritic.
2020 January 2, Patrick Olivelle, “Long-distance trade in ancient India: Evidence from Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra”, in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, volume 57, number 1, SAGE, →DOI, page 39:Dukūla appears to be the name of a particular kind of textile and a yarn […] Some think that the term is a Prakritism for dvikūla, that is, a cloth with two borders. This is, however, unlikely, because of the use of the term for a kind of yarn.