[hōnā], v.i. to be, exist, become.
[◀MIA: Pk. bhavaï, °aē ‘is got’, hōi ‘is’, huaï ‘is’; Pa. bhavati, hōti ‘becomes, is’ ◀OIA bhávati ‘becomes, is’ RV. <√bhū ‘to become, be, arise, come into being, exist’ ◀PIE *bheu-, bheu̯ǝ- (bhu̯ā-, bhu̯ē-) : bhō̆u- : bhū- ‘to be, exist, become; to grow’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. be, booth, build, beam ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. husband, physics, future ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 1242; (Turner, 1966) 9416, p.544; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 499; (MW, 1899) 0760; (Pokorny, 1959) 0146; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.255
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