Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Artificial coinage, maybe abstracted from a *-sḱéti present of the root अम् (am, to seize).[1]

Pronunciation

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Root

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आञ्छ् (āñch)

  1. to stretch, draw into the right position, set (a bone or leg)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 20

Further reading

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “आञ्छ्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 133/2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 6
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “आञ्छ्”, 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