خسنگ

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Brahui

Etymology

Unknown. Bray suggests a connection to Gondi (kossānā, “to sift with sideways motion”).

McAlpin relates it to Achaemenid Elamite (ha-su-ip /⁠hasup⁠/, “anointers”).[1][2]

Verb

خَسِّنْگ (xassiṅg)

  1. to shake
  2. to hustle, pester, worry
  3. to fling
  4. to deliver a blow

References

  1. ^ McAlpin, David (2022) “*xas”, in “Modern colloquial eastern Elamite”, in Al-Burz, volume 14, number 1, page 76 of 64–123
  2. ^ McAlpin, David (2015) “Brahui and the Zagrosian Hypothesis”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society,‎, volume 135, number 3, page 561 of 551–586

Further reading

  • Bray, Denys (1934) “khassing”, in The Brahui Language‎, Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, Part II: The Brāhūī Problem; Part III: Etymological Vocabulary, page 182
  • Ali, Liaquat, Kobayashi, Masato (2024) “xass-ing”, in Brahui Texts: Glossed and Translated Short Stories and Folktales‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 732
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