Tuesday, March 2, 2010

बधाई بدھائی ♣ Eng. ortho-, arduous

बधाई بدھائی ♣ Eng. ortho-, arduous

[badʰāī], f. congratulation(s).

[◀MIA: Pk.vaḍḍhā̆via- ‘increased’ ◀OIA vardhāpayati ‘increases, exalts, gladdens, congratulates’ Kād. BHSk. <√vr̥dh ‘increase’ ◀PIE *u̯erdh-, u̯redh- ‘to grow (tr., intr.), increase; high’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. ortho-, arduous ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0141; (Turner, 1966) 11383, p.699; (MW, 1899) 1010; (Pokorny, 1959) 1167, 0339; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.520

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