Sunday, March 7, 2010

बासी باسی ♣ Eng. weather, wind

बासी باسی ♣ Eng. weather, wind

[bāsī], adj. stale (as food, water).

[◀MIA: Pk. vāsida-, °iya- ‘scented, smelling, stale’; Pa. vāsita-, °aka- ‘scented’ ◀OIA vāsita- ‘infused, scented’ MBh. <√vās ‘smell’ ◀PIE *u̯ē-s- <*au̯(e)-, au̯ē(o)-, u̯ē- ‘to blow’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. weather, wind ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. vent, wing ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0122; (Turner, 1966) 11604, p.675, p.669; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 610; (MW, 1899) 0947, 0934; (Pokorny, 1959) 0081; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 3.468, 2.537

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