[Sanskrit?] Pronunciation help, please. :)

[Guest]

I'd just like to know the proper pronunciation for the word 'kheda'.

Thank you in advance. :)

[Guest]

I forgot to mention, I believe it's a Sanskrit word, though I may be wrong.

[Sisyphe]

If it is sanscrit (I do not know the word, but it coud be so), as written (or as you can) : k + aspirate + e + d + a [like "art", but shorter].

[Vikr]

I'd just like to know the proper pronunciation for the word 'kheda'.

Thank you in advance.

खेदः

exhaustion

pronounced as Sisyphe "said" with a final expiration

the short "a" is like the "u" in umbrella; suppose ther is also a "h" just after

[Sisyphe]

The final expiration is the casual mark, who did not appear in the word that gave our guest (but has to).

[pc2]

namaste,

we thought the "a" would be pronounced short but open, like it would be in Portuguese, and the "e" medium and closed, like the "e" in "hey". isn't that?

kheda, in Sanskrit, means "fatigue", "the feeling of being tired", "tiredness".

the final aspiration you are talking about is the Visarga or a common nominative mark in some declinations. it is because kheda is only the root, or the pratipadika. this aspiration is then used in a phrase to indicate the word is a nominative or subject, and it is marked in the transliteration as the letter "h" with an underdot (bindu).

so you have to know whether or not the word is being used as subject, before applying the final aspiration (but it's not that every word take visarga in the nominative).

salutations,