Nirukta is Vedic glossary of difficult words. It literally means etymology. One important work on Nirukta relates to Yaska, an ancient Sanskrit scholar and grammarian, believed to have flourished as early as in 800-700 BCE, according to one school and as late as 300 BCE according to other. The adjective Vedic may refer to The Vedas, the oldest preserved Indo-Aryan texts. ... This is a list of glossaries (pages containing terms and their definitions or explanations). ... In historical linguistics, etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... The Sanskrit language ( संस्कृता वाक्) is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family and is not only a classical language, but also an official language of India. ... This article is about grammar from a linguistic perspective. ...

Yaska's Nirukta (etymology) consists of three parts, viz.: (i) Naighantuka, a collection of synonyms; (ii) Naigama, a collection of words peculiar to the Vedas, and (iii) Daivata, words relating to deities and sacrifices.

It tells of various attempts to interpret difficult Vedic mythologies. The work is in the form of explanations of words and is the basis for later lexicons and dictionaries The word mythology (from the Greek μυϑολογία mythología, from μυϑολογειν mythologein to relate myths, from μυϑος mythos, meaning a narrative, and λογος logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and... A lexicon is a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i. ... ...

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Niruktam sememes