Sunday, July 12, 2009

फुरती پُھرتی ♣ Eng. spur, spurn

फुरती پُھرتی ♣ Eng. spur, spurn

[pʰurtī], f. briskness, promptness, agility, smartness.

[◀MIA: Pk. phuraï ‘twitches, trembles’ ◀OIA sphuráti ‘spurns, darts’ RV. <√sphur ‘dart, twitch’ ◀PIE *sp(h)er-, sp(h)erǝ- ‘to make a rash movement, to push away, to rush, to kick; ankle’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. spur, spurn ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0285; (Turner, 1966) 13849, p.800; (MW, 1899) 1270; (Pokorny, 1959) 0992; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.776

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