Sanskrit edit

Alternative scripts edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. Probably a sound-symbolic formation, and/or from Munda. Compare German lallen (to babble) for a similar formation.

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

लल् (lal)

  1. to play; to sport; to frolic; to behave loosely or freely
  2. to loll or wag the tongue

References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “लल्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 897, column 3.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 146
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 438
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 91-92