Saturday, January 15, 2011

ठेठ ٹھیٹھ ♣ Eng. stand, stay

ठेठ ٹھیٹھ ♣ Eng. stand, stay

[ṭʰēṭ⁽ʰ⁾], adj. pure, genuine, typical, unsophisticated.

[◀MIA ⋯ ◀OIA sthēṣṭha- ʻmost fixed, durableʼ Pāṇ. <√sthā ‘stand’ ◀PIE *stā- : stǝ- ‘to stand’] ♣[=PIE▶⋯▶Eng. stand, stool, stem, stead ] ♣[=PIE▶⋯→Eng. stage, stance, stay, station, status ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0366; (Turner, 1966) 13778, p.793; (MW, 1899) 1265, 1262; (Pokorny, 1959) 1004; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.767, 2.764

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