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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From a tas-ablative form of कु (ku, “a pronominal base implying deterioration, want”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
कुतस् • (kutas)
- from whom?
- since what time
- from where? whence?
- whereto? in which direction
- where?
- wherefore? why? from what cause or motive? because
- how? in what manner?
- how much less? much less
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “कुतस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 290/2.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 364