Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷʰ⁾eh₂ģʰ- / *gʷʰāh₂ģʰ- (to wade); cognate with Persian آغاز (âğâz, beginning, start), Slovene gáziti (to wade).

Pronunciation

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Root

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गाह् (gāh)

  1. to dive into, plunge into
  2. to penetrate, enter deeply into
  3. to roam, range, move
  4. to be absorbed in

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Primary Verbal Forms
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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “गाह्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0354/3.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “गाह्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 036
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “गाह्”, 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
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 486
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 96