Saturday, August 13, 2011

चरख़ा چَرْخَہ ♣ Eng. wheel, cycle


चरख़ा چَرْخَہ ♣ Eng. wheel, cycle

[carxā̌], m. a spinning-wheel.

[←New Pers. čarxa ‘a wheel of any kind, a reel’ <(suffix; likeness) <čarx ‘wheel’ <(metathesis) ◄Middle Pers. čhr ‘wheel’] ♣[Young Avestan čaxra- m.n. ‘wheel’] ♣[OIA cakrá- m.n. ʻwheelʼ RV.]

▲[PIE *kʷekʷlo-, kʷokʷlo- (?) ‘wheel’ <(reduplication) <*kʷel-, kʷelǝ- ‘to turn; wheel; neck?’] (LRC),(AHD)▼

[PIE► ⋯⋯ ►Eng. wheel] ♣[PIE► ⋯⋯ →Eng. colony, cultivate, culture, cycle, collar, pole]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0430; (Turner, 1966) 4538, p.254, p.256; (MW, 1899) 0380; (Pokorny, 1959) 0639; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.521, 1.534; (Horn, 1893) 0437

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