Sunday, February 28, 2010

बटेर بٹیر ♣ Eng. version + tera- (prefix)

बटेर بٹیر ♣ Eng. version + tera- (prefix)

[baṭēr], m.; f. a quail.

[◀MIA ∙∙∙ ◀OIA *vartakara- ‘making turns (of the quail)’ <+②kará- ‘doing, causing’ AV., m. ‘hand’ RV. (♣Eng. tera- ) <.varta- m. ‘*turning round’, ‘livelihood’ lex. <√vr̥t ‘turn’ ◀PIE *u̯er-t- ‘to turn, wind’ <*u̯er- ‘to turn, bend’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. worth, weird, wreath, writhe, worry, wrong, worm ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. verse, version, versus, vermicelli ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0133; (Turner, 1966) 11350, 11346, p.698, ② 2779, p.177; (MW, 1899) 1009, ② 0253, 0300; (Pokorny, 1959) 1152 (1156), ② 0641; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.518, ② 1.307

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