[rattī], f. a kind of seed, jewelers’ weight.
[◀MIA ∙∙∙ ◀OIA raktikā- f. ‘Abrus precatorius (the red and black seed used as a weight)’ ŚārṅgS. <.rakta- ‘coloured, dyed’ ŚBr., ‘red’ ŚāṅkhGr̥., n. ‘blood’ Mn., °aka- ‘red’ VarBr̥S. <√rañj ‘dye’ ◀PIE *reg- (and sreg-?) ‘to colour, paint, dye’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. lac, lake, regolith ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0587; (Turner, 1966) 10544, 10539, p.612; (MW, 1899) 0862, 0861; (Pokorny, 1959) 0854; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.424
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