अद्

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See also: अदा

Kolami

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *atu. Cognate with Kannada ಅದು (adu), Malayalam അത് (atŭ), Tamil அது (atu). From (a, pronominal base), see Proto-Dravidian *a-. Cognate with Kannada ಅದು (adu), Malayalam അത് (atŭ), Telugu అది (adi).

Pronoun

अद् (ad)

  1. she, it, that
  2. non-masculine third-person singular distal pronoun; it or she

Sanskrit

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Had-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Had-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-. Cognates include Avestan 𐬀𐬛 (ad), Hittite 𒂊𒀉𒈪 (e-id-mi, I eat), Ancient Greek ἔδω (édō), Latin edō, Old Armenian ուտեմ (utem, to eat), Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan), Old Church Slavonic ꙗсти (jasti), Old Irish estir (he may eat), English eat.

Pronunciation

Root

अद् (ad)

  1. to eat

Derived terms

Primary Verbal Forms
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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “अद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 17/3.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 3
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 61-2