Sanskrit

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Indo-European *pet-.

Root

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पत् (pat)

  1. to fall (see पतति for all senses)
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Etymology 2

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Denominal of पति (pati, lord).

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पत् (pat)

  1. to rule
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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “पत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 580/3.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 94
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 71-72