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Sanskrit
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Etymology
Of uncertain origin. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to twist, turn”), and cognate with English narrow. However, Mayrhofer does not mention this derivation at all, and prefers to derive the root from a t-extension of Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr (“power, vital energy; man”).
Pronunciation
Root
नृत् • (nṛt)
- to dance (about)
- to act on stage, represent
Derived terms
- नृत्यते (nṛtyáte, Passive)
- अनर्ति (ánarti, Passive Aorist)
- नर्तयति (nartáyati, Causative)
- अननर्तत् (ánanartat, Causative Aorist)
- अनीनृतत् (ánīnṛtat, Causative Aorist)
- निनृत्सति (ninṛtsati, Desiderative)
- निनर्तिषति (ninartiṣati, Desiderative)
- नरिनर्त्ति (narinartti, Intensive)
- नरीनर्त्ति (narīnartti, Intensive)
- नरीनृत्यते (narīnṛtyate, Intensive)
- नर्नर्त्ति (narnartti, Intensive)
- नर्नृतीति (narnṛtīti, Intensive)
- नरिनृतीति (narinṛtīti, Intensive)
- नरीनृतीति (narīnṛtīti, Intensive)
Descendants
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “नृत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0568/2.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “नृत्”, 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 092
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “नृत्”, 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
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 22; 53
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 177-8
- 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 231
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 0975, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0975