गै

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• गा (gā)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• 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

From 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

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːj/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɡɑj/

Root

गै • (gai)

1. to sing, recite
2. to praise in song
3. to relate in metrical language

Derived terms

• गाथा (gāthā, “verse, stanza”)
• गान (gāna, “song”)
• गायति (gāyati, “to sing”)
• गायत्री (gāyatrī, “the Gayatri metre”)
• गीता (gītā, “song”)
• भगवद्गीता (bhagavadgītā, “the Bhagavad-gita”)

 

References

• 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