Sanskrit

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Etymology

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Likely from Proto-Indo-Aryan *gál, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gál, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (to drip, dribble, ooze, flow). Cognate with Albanian gëloj, Old High German quellan (to well up, to pour out), Old English cwylla (spring, source) (whence English quell).

Pronunciation

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Root

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गल् (gal)

  1. to drip, drop, ooze, trickle, distill
  2. to fall down or off
  3. to vanish, perish, pass away
  4. (of a liquid) to drop
  5. to cause to drop, filter, strain
  6. to cause (the water of a dropsical person) to go off
  7. to fuse, liquefy, dissolve, melt
  8. causing to drop from one's body

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “गल्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 350/3.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 35
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 476-477