Thomas Burrow (29 June 1909 - 8 June 1986) was an Indologist and the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1944 to 1976. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St Silverius becomes Pope (probable Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Indology refers to the academic study of the languages texts History and Cultures of the Indian subcontinent, and as such a subset of Asian studies Sanskrit (sa संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, for short sa संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam) is a historical The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. His work includes Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, The Problem of Shwa in Sanskrit and The Sanskrit Language.
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Early life
Burrow was born at Leck in North Lancashire, the eldest of the six children of Joshua and Frances Eleanor Burrow. Leck (Læk ''Mooring'' North Frisian: Leek) is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea He attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge. Christ’s College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the Here he became interested in Sanskrit as a result of specialising in comparative philology. Comparative linguistics (originally comparative Philology) is a branch of Historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to
Publications
- with M. B. Emeneau, A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, Clarendon Press (1966)
- A Dravidian etymological dictionary: Supplement, Clarendon Press (1968)
- The Sanskrit Language, Faber and Faber (1965), reprint Motilal Banarsidass (2001), ISBN 978-8120817678. Murray Barnson Emeneau ( February 28, 1904 - August 29, 2005) was an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Motilal Banarsidass (MLBD is a leading Indian publishing house on Sanskrit and Indology since 1903 located in Delhi, India.
- A comparative vocabulary of the Gondi dialects, Asiatic Society (1960)
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