गै
Sanskrit
editAlternative forms
edit- गा (gā)
Alternative scripts
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- গৈ (Assamese script)
- ᬕᬿ (Balinese script)
- গৈ (Bengali script)
- 𑰐𑰹 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀕𑁃 (Brahmi script)
- ဂဲ (Burmese script)
- ગૈ (Gujarati script)
- ਗੈ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌗𑍈 (Grantha script)
- ꦒꦻ (Javanese script)
- 𑂏𑂶 (Kaithi script)
- ಗೈ (Kannada script)
- គៃ (Khmer script)
- ໄຄ (Lao script)
- ഗൈ (Malayalam script)
- ᡤᠠᡳ (Manchu script)
- 𑘐𑘺 (Modi script)
- ᠺᠧᠧ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦰𑧛 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐐𑐿 (Newa script)
- ଗୈ (Odia script)
- ꢔꣀ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆓𑆽 (Sharada script)
- 𑖐𑖹 (Siddham script)
- ගෛ (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩞𑩗 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚌𑚳 (Takri script)
- கை³ (Tamil script)
- గై (Telugu script)
- ไค (Thai script)
- གཻ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒑𑒻 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨍𑨇 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *geH- (“to sing, cry”).
Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁 (gāθā, “form of strophe, metre, namely the collections of Zarathustra's songs, the Gathas”).
Pronunciation
editRoot
editगै • (gai)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Monier Williams (1899) “गै”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0363.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “गै”, 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 035
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “गै”, 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 483; 496
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “355”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 355
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 356