Prakrit edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Maharastri Prakrit verb set
𑀕𑀺𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀇 (gijjaï)
𑀕𑀸𑀅𑀇 (gāaï)

Inherited from Sanskrit गायति (gā́yati). Cognate with Pali gāyati.

Verb edit

𑀕𑀸𑀅𑀇 (gāaï) (Devanagari गाअइ, Kannada ಗಾಅಇ) (transitive) (Maharastri)

  1. to sing

Descendants edit

References edit

  • E.B. Cowell (1868) The Prákṛit Prakáśa[1], London: Trübner & Co., page 168
  • Sir George Abraham Grierson (1924), “The Prakrit Dhātv-ādēśas: According to the Western and the Eastern Schools of Prakrit Grammarians.”, in Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal[2], volume VIII, issue 2, Calcutta, page 131.
  • Pischel, Richard; Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages, Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass, page 343.
  • Woolner, Alfred Cooper, An Introduction to Prakrit‎, Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1917, page 49.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “gāˊyati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press