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तक्ष्

Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-Aryan *taṭṣ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *taćš-, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to hew, create”).[1] Cognate with Latin texō (“to weave”) (whence English text, textile), Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē) (whence English techno-), and Serbo-Croatian те̏сла (tesla, “adze”). See also तक्षन् (takṣan, “carpenter”).

Pronunciation

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Root

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तक्ष् • (takṣ)

  1. to form by cutting, plane, chisel, chop
  2. to cut, split
  3. to fashion, form (out of wood etc.), make, create
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.29.15:
      इन्द्र॒ ब्रह्म॑ क्रि॒यमा॑णा जुषस्व॒ या ते॑ शविष्ठ॒ नव्या॒ अक॑र्म ।
      वस्त्रे॑व भ॒द्रा सुकृ॑ता वसू॒यू रथं॒ न धीरः॒ स्वपा॑ अतक्षम् ॥
      índra bráhma kriyámāṇā juṣasva yā́ te śaviṣṭha návyā ákarma.
      vástreva bhadrā́ súkṛtā vasūyū́ ráthaṃ ná dhī́raḥ svápā atakṣam.
      O, mighty Indra, accept the prayers which we are about to offer, and the present praises which we repeat; firm, doing pious acts, and desirous of wealth; I have made acceptable and pious works like rich garments, and chariots.
  4. to form in the mind, invent
  5. make able or prepare for
  6. (mathematics) to reduce by dividing

Derived terms

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Sanskrit terms belonging to the root तक्ष् (0 c, 4 e)
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References

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  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “TAKṢ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 612-3

Further reading

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “तक्ष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0431/3.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “तक्ष्”, 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 059
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “तक्ष्”, 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
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