Monday, August 10, 2009

कहना کہنا ♣ Eng. who, quote

कहना کہنا ♣ Eng. who, quote

[kɛh₍ɛ₎nā], v.t.; m. to say, tell; to call something (a name); advice, saying.

[◀MIA: Pk. kahēi, °haï ‘says’; Pa. kathēti ‘speaks, preaches’ ◀OIA katháyati ‘converses with, describes’ MBh. <kathā́- ‘conversation, speech’ ĀśvGr̥., ‘story’ MBh. (<√kath ‘speak’) <kathā́ ‘how, why?’ RV. <ká- <ka- ‘who? which? what?’ interrogative pronominal stem ◀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) 0880; (Turner, 1966) 2703, 2704, p.135, 2574, p.127; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 184; (MW, 1899) 0247, 0240; (Pokorny, 1959) 0644; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.295, 1.284

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