[sān], m.; f. a grindstone, touchstone.
[◀MIA: Pk. sāṇa- m. ʻwhetstoneʼ ◀OIA śāna- m., °nā- f. ʻwhetstoneʼ lex., śāṇa- m. Kāv. <√śō ‘whet’ ◀PIE *k̂ē(i)- : k̂ō(i)- : k̂ǝ(i)- ‘to sharpen, whet, grind’] ♣[=PIE▶⋯▶Eng. hone ] ♣[=PIE▶⋯→Eng. cone ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0628; (Turner, 1966) 12388, p.732; (MW, 1899) 1064; 1091 (Pokorny, 1959) 0541; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.627
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