असेचन
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Sanskrit
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. The surface analysis अ- (a-, “not”) + सेचन (secana, “pouring out”) cannot account for the meaning. But consider the variation आशेचन (āśécana), which can have the same meaning.
Adjective
[edit]असेचन • (asecana)
Descendants
[edit]- → Tocharian B: asecanadarśaṃ
Further reading
[edit]- Monier Williams (1899) “असेचन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 121/3.
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “असेचन”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016