Friday, January 9, 2009

तुलना تُلنا ♣ Eng. talent, extol

तुलना تُلنا ♣ Eng. talent, extol

[tulnā], v.i. to be weighed, compared (with), determined (to).

[◀MIA: Pk. tulēi, tulaï ‘weighs, examines’; Pa. tulēti ‘weighs, examines’ ◀OIA tulayati ‘lifts’ R., ‘weighs’ MBh. <√tul ‘lift’ ◀PIE *tel-, telǝ-, tlē(i)-, tlā- ‘to lift, support, weigh’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. thole ‘to bear; to endure’ ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. toll, tolerate, talent, Atlas, extol ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0335; (Turner, 1966) 5884, p.335; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 305; (MW, 1899) 0451; (Pokorny, 1959) 1060; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.658

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