In Sanskrit the main word for 'heart' is hṛd or the suffixed form hṛdaya . However most of us are also familiar with the word fo...

M ANY WORDS HAVE INTERESTING STORIES associated with them. This is a fifth set of terms which have caught my eye as having some interest, b...

It occurs to me that I often go on about etymology and the links between Sanskrit and English words and yet I've never said much about t...