Sanskritism is a term used to indicate words that are coined out of Sanskrit for modern usage in India, in Sri Lanka and elsewhere or for neologisms. They are often formed as calques of English words.[1][2][3] These terms are similar in nature to taxon terms coined from Latin and Greek.
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