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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *deḱs- (“right side, dexter”).
Cognates include Ancient Greek δεξῐός (dexiós, “right(hand), fortunate, able”), Old Church Slavonic деснъ (desnŭ, “right(side)”).
Pronunciation
Root
दक्ष् • (dakṣ)
- to be able or strong
- to grow, increase
- to act quickly
Derived terms
- दक्ष (dákṣa, “skilled, adroit, dexterous”)
- दक्षिण (dákṣiṇa, “right, righthand; south”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “दक्ष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0465.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दक्ष्”, 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 069
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दक्ष्”, 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, pages 294, 305
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 112
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 0190, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0190