चिद्

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid. Cognate with Latin quid (“why?”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

चिद् • (cid)

  1. (Vedic) at all, even, indeed, also, often merely laying stress on a preceding word
  2. (Classical Sanskrit) only used after interrogative pronouns and adverbs to render them indefinite, and after जातु (jātu)
    जातु (jātu, “at all”) + चिद् (cid) → जातुचिद् (jātucid, “perhaps”)
    चिद् (cid) + चिद् (cid) → चिच्चिद् (ciccid, “as well as”)
    ‎कः (kaḥ, “what”) + ‎चिद् (cid) → ‎कश्चिद् (kaścid, “anything”) → यः कश्चित् (yaḥ kaścit, “whatever”)

References

  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 543
  • Monier Williams (1899) “चिद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 398.
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