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Sanskrit
Etymology
Unknown. Per Michael Witzel, borrowed from substrate.
Pronunciation
Noun
क॒कर्दु॑ • (kakárdu) stem, m
- (Rigvedic hapax legomenon) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE,
Ṛgveda 10.102.6:
- क॒कर्द॑वे वृष॒भो यु॒क्त आ॑सी॒दवा॑वची॒त्सार॑थिरस्य के॒शी ।
दुधे॑र्यु॒क्तस्य॒ द्रव॑तः स॒हान॑स ऋ॒च्छन्ति॑ ष्मा नि॒ष्पदो॑ मुद्ग॒लानी॑म् ॥- kakárdave vṛṣabhó yuktá āsīdávāvacītsā́rathirasya keśī́.
dúdheryuktásya drávataḥ sahā́nasa ṛcchánti ṣmā niṣpádo mudgalā́nīm.
- 1890 translation by Ralph T. H. Griffith
- In hope of victory that bull was harnessed: Kesi the driver urged him on with shouting. As he ran swiftly with the car behind him his lifted heels pressed close on Mudgalani.
- destruction of enemies
- piece of wood
Declension
References
- ^ Monier Williams (1899) “ककर्दु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 241.
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “kakárdu-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 286
- ^ Witzel, Michael (1999) “Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan
(Ṛgvedic, Middle and Late Vedic)”, in Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, volume 5, number 1, page 7