Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7372

On Some Words and Expressions Used by Writers of the Ashram [10]

In my use of “loft” I follow its derivation from German “Luft” = the air, and Icelandic “lopt” = sky, upper room.

Derivations are depravations – even when they are right they are useless,– what matters is what the word means, not what something else meant which gave birth to the word.