गण्

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See also: गण, गुण, and गुणा

Sanskrit

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Etymology

Derived from Prakrit. Mayrhofer and Turner both reconstruct an original -ṛ- vowel to account for the variance of this root's -a- for -i- and -u- in the descendants.

Beyond this, the derivation is unclear. Turner connects it to Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls out, invokes”), from गॄ (gṝ), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, greet”). Mayrhofer connects it to Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to assemble, gather together”), whence also ग्राम (grāma). If so, cognates include Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γών (agṓn) and ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (agorā́), and Latin grex.

Pronunciation

Root

गण् • (gaṇ)

  1. to count, calculate

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root गण्‎ (0 c, 8 e)
Primary Verbal Forms
Non-Finite Forms
Derived Nominal Forms

Descendants

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root गण्‎ (3 c, 0 e)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “गण्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0342.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 513
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