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Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáyatay, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷéy-e-ti, from *kʷey- (“to pay”).[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ) (whence English pain, punish and penalty), Lithuanian kaina (“price”) Old Church Slavonic цѣна (cěna, “price”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁 (kaēnā), Old Armenian քէն (kʻēn, “hate”) and Persian کین (kin, “hatred”).
Pronunciation
Verb
चयते • (cáyate) third-singular indicative (class 1, root चि)[2]
- to punish
- to take revenge, vengeance on
- to hate, detest
References
- ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*kʷei̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 379
- ^ Monier Williams (1899) “चयते”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 394.