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Sanskrit
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Etymology
Probably a variant of (or at least influenced by) क्षर् (kṣar), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *gẓʰar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gžʰar-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰer-. If not that, then from Proto-Indo-European *kʷsel-, whence Old Norse skola (“to wash”).
Root
क्षल् • (kṣal)
- to wash, wash off
- to purify, cleanse, clean
- Synonym of क्षर् (kṣar)
Derived terms
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Non-Finite Forms
- Derived Nominal Forms
- Prefixed Root Forms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “क्षल्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 327.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 28