भ्रंश्

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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenḱ- (to deviate, corrupt, fall off). Cognate with Tocharian B pränk- (to stay away, restrain oneself) and prenke (island), and perhaps Old Irish bréc (lie).

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

भ्रंश् (bhraṃś)

  1. to fall, drop, fall down or out or in pieces
  2. to strike against
  3. to rebound from
  4. to fall (figuratively), decline, decay, fail, disappear, vanish, be ruined or lost
  5. to be separated from or deprived of, lose
  6. to slip or escape from
  7. to swerve or deviate from, abandon
  8. to cause to fall (literally and figuratively), throw down, overthrow
  9. to cause to disappear or be lost, destroy
  10. to cause to escape from
  11. to cause to deviate from
  12. to deprive anyone of

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “भ्रंश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 769/2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 115
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 276-7
  • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
  • Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 209, page 127