पट्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from a t-extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelH- (“to split off, separate”) and thus related to German spalten (“to cleave”) via a sound change from *पृत् (pṛt) to पट् (paṭ).

Pronunciation

Root

पट् • (paṭ)

  1. to flow
  2. to split, open, burst asunder
  3. to string together, wrap
  4. to speak or shine
  5. to split, burst, cleave, tear, pierce, break, pluck out, remove

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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “पट्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 579/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 93
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 67
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