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Re: Origin and meaning
Thanks!
So what you all mean't was Riya not an Indian Origin and was borrowed by foreign name.
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More precisely: I do not know if the origin is Indian. The meaning singer is *very likely* not of Sanskrit origin, but half the words spoken in India do not trace themselves to Sanskrit. So far I haven't been able to trace the origin to any language in India that I know, but it is a vast linguinstic region.
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