Tuesday, February 23, 2010

लुकना لُکنا ♣ Eng. leaf, lift

लुकना لُکنا ♣ Eng. leaf, lift

[luknā], v.i. to be hidden.

[◀MIA: Pk. *lukka- in lukkaï intr. ‘hides’ <.lutta- ‘disappeared’; Pa. lutta- ‘broken, cut off’ ◀OIA lupta- ‘robbed of, lacking, lost, destroyed’ MBh. <√lup ‘destroy’ ◀PIE *leup- and leub-, leubh- ‘to peel, cut off, break off, harm, etc.’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. leaf ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. lift, lodge, loft ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0959; (Turner, 1966) 11083, p.645; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 585; (MW, 1899) 0904; (Pokorny, 1959) 0690; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.482

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