Saturday, July 17, 2010

सवा سوا ♣ Eng. same + pedal

सवा سوا ♣ Eng. same + pedal

[savā], adj. num. plus a quarter.

[◀MIA: Pk. savāya- ʻplus a quarterʼ ◀OIA sapāda- ʻincreased by a fourthʼ Mn. <+②sa- comitative prefix ‘with, together or along with, accompanied by, added to, having, containing, having the same’ (♣Eng. same ) <pā́da- m. ‘foot, a fourth part’ <pád- ‘foot, step, a fourth part, a quarter’ ◀PIE *pē̆d-, pō̆d- ‘foot’] ♣[=PIE▶⋯▶Eng. foot, fetter, fetch ] ♣[=PIE▶⋯→Eng. pedal, pedestrian, peon, pioneer ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0690; (Turner, 1966) 13134, 8056, ② 12816; (MW, 1899) 0583, 0617, ② 1111, 1152; (Pokorny, 1959) 0790, ② 0902; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.077, ② 2.702

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