Tuesday, September 15, 2009

चिता چِتا ♣ Eng. poem, poet

चिता چِتا ♣ Eng. poem, poet

[citā], f. a funeral pyre.

[←OIA citā- f. ‘funeral pyre’ MBh. <√ci ‘heap up’ ◀PIE *kʷei- ‘to pile up, stow, gather, prepare, order, build, make’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. poem, poet ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0423; (Turner, 1966) 4796, p.259; (MW, 1899) 0394; (Pokorny, 1959) 0637; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.532

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