an etymological journey from the Ganges to the Thames ...... (n.b. In this blog, the symbol ♣ is used to mean “is cognate with.”)
आठ آٹھ ♣ Eng. eight, October
[āṭʰ], adj. num. 8 (eight).
[◀MIA: Pk. Pa. aṭṭha ‘eight’ ◀OIA aṣṭā́, °ṭáu ‘eight’ RV. ◀PIE *ok̂tō(u) ‘eight’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. eight ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. October, octopus, octo- ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0020; (Turner, 1966) 941; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 015; (MW, 1899) 0116; (Pokorny, 1959) 0775; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.142
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