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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उभय (ubhaya), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoh₁, see also Proto-Germanic *bai (“both”), Proto-Slavic *oba.[1]
Pronunciation
Determiner
उभय • (ubhay)
- both, two; both of
- Synonym: दोनों (donõ)
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “ba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 46
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰoh₁, see also Proto-Germanic *bai (“both”), Proto-Slavic *oba.
Adjective
उभय • (ubhaya)
- in both ways, of two sides
Descendants