[arvī], f. a plant of the arum family, taro.
[◀MIA: Pk. āluī- f. ‘a partic. creeper’ ◀OIA ālukī- f. ‘a species of root’ Bhpr. <ālu-, °uka- n. ‘esculent root of Amorphophallus campanulatus’ lex. ◀PIE *ālu-, ālo- ‘a bitter plant’; *alu- ( -d-, -t- ) ‘bitter; beer’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. ale ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0042; (Turner, 1966) 1388; (MW, 1899) 0154; (Pokorny, 1959) 0033; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 3.025
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