[kʰēt], m. an (agricultural) field, farm, land, battlefield.
[◀MIA: Pk. khetta-, khit°, chetta-, chit°, khēa- ‘field’; Pa. khetta- n. ‘field’ ◀OIA kṣḗtra- n. ‘land’ RV. <√kṣi ‘dwell’ ◀PIE *k̂þei- ‘to settle’; k̂ei- ‘to lie down’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. home ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. hamlet, haunt, situate ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0885; (Turner, 1966) 3735, p.191; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 238; (MW, 1899) 0327; (Pokorny, 1959) 0626, 0539; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.436, 1.427
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