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गृध्

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eldʰ- (to be greedy, hungry).[1][2] Cognates include Proto-Slavic *gȏldъ (hunger), whence Russian го́лод (gólod). English greed is a false cognate.

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    Root

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    गृध् (gṛdh)[3][4][5][6][7]

    1. to covet, desire, strive after greedily

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    1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “434”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 434
    2. ^ 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 341
    3. ^ पाणिनि [Pāṇini] (c. 600–400 BCE) धातुपाठः [Dhātupāṭhaḥ] (in Sanskrit), verse 4.161
    4. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “गृध्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 361, column 2.
    5. ^ Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “गृध्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
    6. ^ William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 39
    7. ^ Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “गृध्”, 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