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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eldʰ- (“to be greedy, hungry”).
Cognates include Proto-Slavic *gȏldъ (“hunger”), whence Russian го́лод (gólod). English greed is a false cognate.
Pronunciation
Root
गृध् • (gṛdh)
- to covet, desire, strive after greedily
Derived terms
- Primary Verbal Forms
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- Non-Finite Forms
- Derived Nominal Forms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “गृध्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 361, column 2.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “गृध्”, 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 39
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “गृध्”, 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
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “434”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 434
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 341