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हट्ट

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Sanskrit

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Of uncertain origin.

Probably a borrowing from a non-Indo-Aryan language, though Mayrhofer is skeptical of the specific borrowing being from Middle Kannada ಹಟ್ಟ (haṭṭa, a (movable) market).[1][2] Alternative theories link the word to the root हृ (hṛ, to take).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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हट्ट (haṭṭa) stemm

  1. (cf. अट्ट (aṭṭa)) a market, fair (Pañcat. Vet.)

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Caldwell, R. (1875). A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages. United Kingdom: Trübner, p. 465
  2. ^ International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics: IJDL.. (1994). India: Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala, p. 72

Further reading

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “हट्ट”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1287, column 1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 530
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎[2] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 572
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “haṭṭa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 806