Tuesday, February 9, 2010

जैसा جَیسا ♣ Eng. yes + dragon

जैसा جَیسا ♣ Eng. yes + dragon

[jɛ̵sā], rel. adj. of such a sort as, similar to, like.

[◀MIA: Pk. jaïsa-, jēha-, jārisa- ‘of which sort’; Pa. yādisa- ‘of which sort’, °aka- ◀OIA yādrśa- ‘which like’ ŚBr., yādŕ̥ś- RV. <+②√dr̥ś ‘see’ (♣Eng. dragon ) <.yá- (relative stem) ◀PIE *e-, ei-, i-, fem. ī- ‘this, etc. (demonstrative stem); one’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. yes, yet, yonder ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. identical, identity, item ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0414; (Turner, 1966) 10458, 10391, ② p.372; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 553; (MW, 1899) 0851, 0838, ② 0491; (Pokorny, 1959) 0281, ② 0213; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.390, ② 1.704

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