[cunnā], v.t. to choose, select, elect, pluck.
[◀MIA: Pk. cuṇaï ‘pecks up’ <.Pk. ciṇēi; Pa. cināti ‘heaps up, collects’ ◀OIA cinṓti ‘heaps up’ AV. (páricinutē ‘collects’ RV.), ‘collects’ MBh. <√ci ‘heap up’ ◀PIE *kʷei- ‘to pile up, stow, gather, prepare, order, build, make’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. poem, poet ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0446; (Turner, 1966) 4814, p.259; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 268; (MW, 1899) 0394; (Pokorny, 1959) 0637; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.532
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