बात بات ♣ Eng. worth, version

बात بات ♣ Eng. worth, version

[bāt], f. a word, remark, utterance, matter, thing.

[◀MIA: Pk. vattā-, vaṭṭā- f. ‘talk, event, thing’ ◀OIA vārttā- f. ‘livelihood, business’ Mn., ‘tidings’ Kāv. <vr̥ttá- ‘turned’ RV., ‘rounded’ ŚBr. 2. ‘completed’ MaitrUp., ‘passed, elapsed (of time)’ KauṣUp. 3. n. ‘conduct, matter’ ŚBr., ‘livelihood’ Hariv. <√vr̥t ‘turn’ ◀PIE *u̯er-t- ‘to turn, wind’ <*u̯er- ‘to turn, bend’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. worth, weird, wreath, writhe, worry, wrong, worm ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. verse, version, versus, vermicelli ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0117; (Turner, 1966) 11564, 12069, p.698; (MW, 1899) 1009; (Pokorny, 1959) 1152, 1156; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.518