𑀙
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Translingual
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edit𑀙 (ca)
Descendants
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Numeral
edit𑀙 (cha)
- Brahmi script form of cha (“six”)
Declension
editOptionally indeclinable.
Prakrit
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Cardinal: 𑀙 (cha) Ordinal: 𑀲𑀝𑁆𑀞 (saṭṭha), 𑀙𑀝𑁆𑀞 (chaṭṭha) |
Etymology
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*swéḱs |
Inherited from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀙 (*cha), 𑀱 (ṣa), from Sanskrit 𑀱𑁆𑀯𑀱𑁆 (*ṣváṣ), 𑀱𑀱𑁆 (ṣáṣ).
Numeral
edit𑀙 (cha) (Devanagari छ, Gujarati છ, Kannada ಛ) (Ardhamāgadhī, Māhārāṣṭrī) (cardinal number)
Descendants
edit- Central:
- Dardic:
- Dameli: ṣō
- Kalami: [script needed] (ṣuə), [script needed] (ṣɔ)
- Indus Kohistani: [script needed] (šōh), [script needed] (ṣō)
- Kalasha: [script needed] (ṣɔ)
- Kashmiri:
- Grangali: ṣō
- Phalura: ݜوۡ (ṣʷo), ݜو (ṣo), ݜوھ (ṣoʰ)
- Savi: [script needed] (ṣōᵘ), [script needed] (ṣū)
- Shina: ݜ (ṣa), [script needed] (ṣua)
- Kohistani Shina: ݜوا (ṣvā)
- Shumashti: [script needed] (ṣọo)
- Tirahi: [script needed] (xᵘọ̈̄)
- Torwali: [script needed] (ṣōᵘ)
- Wotapuri-Katarqalai: [script needed] (šō)
- Gawar-Bati: ݭو (ṣᵘō)
- Eastern:
- Northern:
- Southern:
- Western:
- → Proto-Nuristani:
Further reading
edit- Sheth, Hargovind Das T[rikamcand] (1923–1928) “छ”, in पाइअ-सद्द-महण्णवो [pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo, Ocean of Prakrit words] (in Hindi), Calcutta: [Published by the Author], page 333.
- Pischel, Richard, Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages, Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass, page 317
- Woolner, Alfred Cooper, An Introduction to Prakrit, Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1917, page 11.
- Sen, Sukumar (1960) A Comparative Grammar of Middle Indo-Aryan, Linguistic Society of India, page 134.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ṣáṣ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 743
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