[dē₍h₎], f.; m. the body.
[◀MIA: Pk. Pa. dēha- m. ‘body’; Pa. dēhaka- n. pl. ‘limbs’ ◀OIA dēha- m.n. ‘body’ TĀr. <√dih ‘smear’ ◀PIE *dheiĝh- ‘to knead; to build, form; to smear, plaster’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. dairy, dough, lady ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. faint, feign, fiction, figure ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0561; (Turner, 1966) 6557, p.363; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 331; (MW, 1899) 0496, 0480; (Pokorny, 1959) 0244; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.746
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