बैठना بیٹھنا ♣ Eng. up + villa

बैठना بیٹھنا ♣ Eng. up + villa

[bɛ̵ṭʰnā], v.i. to sit down.

[◀MIA: Ap. baïsaï ‘sits’: baïṭṭha-; Pk. uvavisaï, bēsaē ‘sits’: uvaviṭṭha- , biṭṭha-; Pa. upavisati ‘approaches’, aor. upāvisi ‘sat down’ ◀OIA úpaviśati ‘approaches’ RV., ‘sits down’ ŚBr. <upa-√viś ‘to go or come near, approach, to sit down, take a seat (as men), lie down (as animals), to enter’ <+②úpa- ‘up to, upon, above, near’ (♣Eng. up ) <√viś ‘enter, settle in’ ◀PIE *u̯eik̂-, u̯ik̂-, u̯oik̂o- ‘home, dwelling (of a family, kin), clan, tribe, extended family’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. villa, village, vicinity, ecology, economy ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0206; (Turner, 1966) 2245, p.691, ② 2136; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 147; (MW, 1899) 0207, 0989, ② 0194; (Pokorny, 1959) 1131, ② 1106; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.584, ② 1.218