#nature
"Even a brief look at this list indicates that in northern India, by and large, only Sanskritic river names seem to survive.... “are etymologically clear and generally have a meaning” ... “the ever-increasing process of changing older names by popular etymology”. ... “Indo-Iranian coinage with the meaning ‘border river, ocean’ and fits Paul Thieme's etymology from the IE root *sidh, ‘to divide’”."
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