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Sorry forgot to turn on hyperlinks: here it is from the database: Aniruddha.In more details, the root rudh has senses of obstruction and closure and the prefix ni- brings in the sense of prohibition. The a- is the negative prefix and the -dha is the past participle marker.As a general rule, the final -a of Sanskrit is often dropped in modern Indian languages unless the doubled consonant generates enough stress to maintain it. Voicing in closed syllables (i.e. those not having a final vowel) often disappears, and Thai tends to drop voicing altogether. In this particular case, the final -a does disappear in some, but not all, north Indian languages but the voicing is present in all these languages. Unfortunately, I am not familiar enough with the languages of South India.
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Wow! This is wonderful ... that a name that is clearly an obstacle to its owner (or why would he go by, as Pavlos says, the rather butch Derick?) should actually mean 'Without Obstacles'! Thomas Hardy, master of the contrived coincidence, couldn't have invented it.The candidate's surname, by the way, is Kissoonduth. This might give some hint as to where in India his family originates from. And he wasn't elected.Thanks so much - it has been most interesting.
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Thanks, তন্ময় ভট :)
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Actually it is তন্ময় ভট্টাচার্য্যActually it is তন্ময় ভট্টাচার্য্য, but the software on this cuts it off :-(
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Ôé êñßìá!
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Not your fault, Παύλος, except ...Instead of seeing your name as Παύλος, I see it as Ðáýëïò, and the subject reads Ôé êñßìá! instead of Τι κρίμα!
The problem looks like you are not correctly transmitting the information that you are using Windows-1253 coding. Maybe you could convince your machine to send unicode instead of Windows-1253 somehow? (I do not know how to do that...)In any case, too far from the subject of names, so maybe we should get back on topic :-) It is only sad that I can't write my name properly on a site dedicated to names :-(
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Is it possible to use English characters for your name, just once, so we can get some idea of what it might sound like? Looks wonderfully elegant, but that's no help if one can't even count syllables!All the best
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Apologies. I have done it before :-) Follow the link below if you are interested.
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http://tanmoy.tripod.com/
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