दु

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Khaling

Noun

दु (du)

beginning, progress, order

Usage notes

used with possessive prefix

References

“दु”, in खालिङ - नेपाली - अङ्‍ग्रेजी शब्दकोश (Khaling - Nepali - English Dictionary), Nepal: SIL International, 2016.

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w- (“to burn”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δαίω (daíō, “kindle”), and perhaps related to Latin duellum, bellum (“war”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /du/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d̪u/

Root

दु • (du)

to be burnt, consumed with internal heat or sorrow
to burn, consume with fire
to cause heat, pain or sorrow

Derived terms

दुत (dutá, “pained, afflicted”)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “दु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0482.
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दु”, 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 075
Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दु”, 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

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 123
Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 104
Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0179”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0179

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