an etymological journey from the Ganges to the Thames ...... (n.b. In this blog, the symbol ♣ is used to mean “is cognate with.”)
तापना تاپنا ♣ Eng. tepid
[tāpnā], v.i. to heat, warm oneself.
[◀MIA: Pk. tappaï ‘burns’; Pa. tappati ‘burns, is tormented’ ◀OIA tápyati ‘is hot’ RV. <√tap ‘be hot’ ◀PIE *tep- ‘to be warm, to warm’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. tepid ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0303; (Turner, 1966) 5684, p.322; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 297; (MW, 1899) 0436; (Pokorny, 1959) 1069; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.623
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