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क्षै

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰ-eh- (to burn); distantly related to दह् (dah, to burn, cauterize).

Pronunciation

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Root

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क्षै (kṣai)

  1. to burn, catch fire, take fire
  2. to singe, burn

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “क्षै”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 333/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 29
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 430; 438
  • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University