कई کئی ♣ Eng. who, quote
[kaī], adj. several, a good many, quite a few, various.
[◀MIA: Pk. kaïvaya-, °vaïya-, kaïvāha-, kaïava- ‘several’; Pa. katipaya- ‘several’, katipa- in katipāhēna ‘in a few days’ ◀OIA katipayá- , pl. °yḗ ‘several’ ŚBr. <káti ‘how many?’ RV. <ká- <ka- interrogative pronominal stem ‘who? which? what?’ ◀PIE *kʷo-, kʷe-, fem. kʷā; kʷei- indefinite / interrogative pronominal base] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. who, what, why, how, when, where ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. quote, quantity, quality ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0887; (Turner, 1966) 2696, 2694, 2574, p.127; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 182; (MW, 1899) 0246; (Pokorny, 1959) 0644; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.294, 1.284
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