चिद्

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Sanskrit

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid. Cognate with Latin quid (why?).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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चिद् (cid)

  1. (Vedic) at all, even, indeed, also, often merely laying stress on a preceding word
  2. (Classical Sanskrit) only used after interrogative pronouns and adverbs to render them indefinite, and after जातु (jātu)
    जातु (jātu, at all) + चिद् (cid)जातुचिद् (jātucid, perhaps)
    चिद् (cid) + चिद् (cid)चिच्चिद् (ciccid, as well as)
    कः (kaḥ, what) + ‎चिद् (cid) → ‎कश्चिद् (kaścid, anything)यः कश्चित् (yaḥ kaścit, whatever)

References

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  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 543
  • Monier Williams (1899) “चिद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 398.