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Sanskrit
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Etymology
Backformed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *krándati, from Proto-Indo-European *kléh₁-nd-, from *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, shout”).
Pronunciation
Root
क्रन्द् • (krand)
- to neigh, roar
- to crack (as a wheel)
- to sound, make a noise
- to cry piteously, lament
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “क्रन्द्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0319.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “क्रन्द्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 024
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “क्रन्द्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016