Words similar to sanskrit

Example sentences for: sanskrit

How can you use “sanskrit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

By the time I graduated from college, I had studied Latin and French for eleven years, Greek for four, German and Old English for two, Lithuanian and Sanskrit for one, and had established a passing acquaintance with Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish.
Drawn to the study of Indian languages, he rose to professor of Sanskrit at Government College, Benares, in 1850, and commenced a career as editor and publisher of Sanskrit texts, the first American to do so.
Convinced of the importance of consulting Hindu legal authorities in the original [ Encyc. Brit . 1963, 13, 140a], Jones, well versed in Sanskrit, became aware of the correspondences among Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, and Germanic forms, which led him to the conclusion that Sanskrit was another, older form of a parent language from which all had sprung.
That is not to say that Thai has been slow or reluctant to adopt or assimilate words from other languages, but they are mostly Sanskrit/Pali, Khmer, and Chinese.
These are not the only possibilities for compounding in English (or Hindi, or Sanskrit), but they are the most common.