an etymological journey from the Ganges to the Thames ...... (n.b. In this blog, the symbol ♣ is used to mean “is cognate with.”)
सब سَب ♣ Eng. solid, safe
[sab], adj. all, whole, total.
[◀MIA: Ap. sā̆va- ‘all’; Pk. savva- ‘all’; Pa. sabba- ‘all’ ◀OIA sárva- ‘all, whole’ RV. ◀PIE *solo-, sol(e)u̯o- ‘whole, integrate, well-kept’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. solid, safe, save, salute, holo- ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0632; (Turner, 1966) 13276; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 680; (MW, 1899) 1184; (Pokorny, 1959) 0979; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.711
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