an etymological journey from the Ganges to the Thames ...... (n.b. In this blog, the symbol ♣ is used to mean “is cognate with.”)
सूत سُوت ♣ Eng. sew, seam
[sūt], m. a cotton thread, yarn, strand.
[◀MIA: Pk. sutta- n. ‘thread, string’; Pa. sutta-, °aka- n. ‘thread, string’ ◀OIA sū́tra- n. ‘thread, cord’ AV. <√siv ‘sew’ ◀PIE *si̯ū- ‘to sew’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. sew, seam ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. suture, hymen ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0693; (Turner, 1966) 13561, p.775; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 718; (MW, 1899) 1218; (Pokorny, 1959) 0915; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.739, 2.734
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