पिश्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (to hew, cut out; adorn; paint). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *pьsati (to write); Latin pingō (paint) whence pigment, picture, paint.

Pronunciation

Root

पिश् (piś)

  1. to hew out, carve, prepare, especially meat
  2. to make ready, adorn
  3. to form, fashion, mould

Derived terms

Noun

पिश् (piś) stemf

  1. ornament, decoration

Declension

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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “पिश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 0628/1-2.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “पिश्”, 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 097
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “पिश्”, 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, pages 168-9