स्खलति

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *skHálati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *skHálati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂él-e-ti. Cognate with Old Armenian սխալեմ (sxalem), Latin fallō, and Ancient Greek σφᾰ́λλω (sphállō).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /skʰɐ.lɐ.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪kʰɐ.l̪ɐ.t̪i/

स्खलति • (skhalati) third-singular indicative (class 1, type P, present, root स्खल्)

1. stumbles, trips, totters, wavers, fluctuates
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
   • 200 BCE – 1200, Kāvya literature

   with न (na), "does not waver, remains steadfast, prevails"

2. drops or slips down, trickles down
3. stammers, falters (as speech)
4. makes mistakes, blunders, errs, fails
5. gathers, collects
   • Dhātup
6. moves
7. disappears

• Pali: khalati
• Prakrit: 𑀔𑀮𑀇 (khalaï, “falls, is stopped, errs”)
  • Central:
    • Hindustani:
      • Hindi: खलना (khalnā)
      • Urdu: کھَلْنا (khalnā)
    • Old Marathi:
      • Marathi: खळणे (khaḷṇe)
    • Old Gujarati:
      • Gujarati: ખળવું (khaḷvũ)

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्खलति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1257.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “skhálati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press