Monday, July 26, 2010

सूत्र سُوتر ♣ Eng. sew, seam

सूत्र سُوتر ♣ Eng. sew, seam

[sūtra], m. a thread, aphorism, formula, source.

[←OIA sū́tra- n. ‘thread, cord’ AV. <√siv ‘sew’ ◀PIE *si̯ū- ‘to sew’] ♣[=PIE▶⋯▶Eng. sew, seam ] ♣[=PIE▶⋯→Eng. suture, hymen ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0694; (Turner, 1966) 13561, p.775; (MW, 1899) 1241, 1218; (Pokorny, 1959) 0915; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.739, 2.734

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