Tuesday, January 26, 2010

भूमि بُھومی ♣ Eng. be, build

भूमि بُھومی ♣ Eng. be, build

[bʰūmi], f. land, earth, soil.

[←OIA bhū́mi- f. ‘earth, ground’ RV., ‘place’ ŚBr., bhūmikā́- f. Kāś. <√bhū ‘to become, be, arise, come into being, exist’ ◀PIE *bheu-, bheu̯ǝ- (bhu̯ā-, bhu̯ē-) : bhō̆u- : bhū- ‘to be, exist, become; to grow’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. be, build, beam ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. booth, husband, physics, future ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0197; (Turner, 1966) 9557; (MW, 1899) 0763, 0760; (Pokorny, 1959) 0146; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.268, 2.255

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