Prakrit

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Etymology

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Prakrit verb set
𑀤𑀺𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀇 (dijjaï)
𑀤𑁂𑀇 (dei)

From Sanskrit ददाति (dádāti), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *dádaHti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dádaHti, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti. Cognate with Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑁂𑀤𑀺 (dedi), Pali dadāti.

Verb

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𑀤𑁂𑀇 (dei) (Devanagari देइ, Kannada ದೇಇ) (transitive) (Māhārāṣṭrī)

  1. to give

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References

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  • 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[1], volume VIII, number 2, Calcutta, page 141.
  • Pischel, Richard, Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages, Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass, page 120
  • Woolner, Alfred Cooper, An Introduction to Prakrit‎, Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1917, page 129.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dádāti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press