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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (to hew, cut out; adorn; paint). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *pьsati (to write); Latin pingō (paint) whence pigment, picture, paint.

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Root edit

पिश् (piś)

  1. to hew out, carve, prepare, especially meat
  2. to make ready, adorn
  3. to form, fashion, mould

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Noun edit

पिश् (piś) stemf

  1. ornament, decoration

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “पिश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 0628/1-2.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “पिश्”, 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 097
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “पिश्”, 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 (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 168-9