तुल्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, undergo, endure”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek τᾰ́λαντον (tálanton, “balance, scale”) whence English talent, Latin tolerō (“bear, endure”) whence English tolerate. Further possible cognates include Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas, “the 'bearer' of heaven”) and therefore Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /tul/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /t̪ul̪/

Root

तुल् • (tul)

1. to lift up, raise
2. to determine the weight of something by lifting it up
3. to compare by weighing
4. to make equal in weight, compare

Derived terms

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “तुल्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0451.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “तुल्”, 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 064
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “तुल्”, 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

• 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 405
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1060, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1060