बत्ती بتّی ♣ Eng. worth, version

बत्ती بتّی ♣ Eng. worth, version

[battī], f. a lamp, light, candle, wick.

[◀MIA: Pk. vaṭṭĭ̄-, °ṭiā-, vatti- f. ‘wick’; Pa. vaṭṭi-, °ikā- f. ‘wick’ ◀OIA várti- (and vartí- ) f. ‘wick’ MBh., ‘small compress’ Suśr., ‘lamp’ lex., °ikā- f. ‘wick’ KālP. <√vr̥t ‘turn’ ◀PIE *u̯er-t- ‘to turn, wind’ <*u̯er- ‘to turn, bend’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. worth, weird, wreath, writhe, worry, wrong, worm ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. verse, version, versus, vermicelli ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0132; (Turner, 1966) 11359, p.698; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 594; (MW, 1899) 0925, 1009; (Pokorny, 1959) 1152, 1156; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.519, 2.518