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Friday, December 29, 2017

Spooky Word: "Preta" from Hindu Mythology

A preta depicted during Kali Puja.
Here's a word you likely have not heard before that means a "Wandering or disturbed ghost."  (Thanks, Wikipedia)...

WORD:  Preta   [prey-tuh] noun
DEFINITION: 1.     Hindu Mythology. a wandering or disturbed ghost.

Citations for preta
It hurtled down upon us, wanting to hurt us, as if we were horrid abominations it hungered to kill; as if the cloud truly was a hungry ghost, a preta.
James Alan Gardner, Radiant, 2004

The boy's expression was that of a preta, unburied at death.
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt, 2002

Origin of preta

In Sanskrit e is a long vowel (it is also transliterated as ē). Hindi grammarians correctly analyzed e as a monophthong replacing an earlier diphthong ai; thus the Sanskrit adjective preta “gone before, deceased” is from an earlier form, praita, formed from the adverb and prefix pra- “forth” and -ita “gone.” Pra- is cognate with the Latin prepositions prō and prae (and prefixes pro- and prae-) and the Greek preposition pró (and prefix pro-), all of them meaning “before, in front of.” The Sanskrit participle ita- corresponds exactly in form with Latin itum, past participle of the verb īre “to go” and the Greek verbal adjective itós “passable,” all from the Proto-Indo-European root ei-, i- “to go.” Preta entered English in the early 19th century.

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