कल्

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Sanskrit

[edit]

Alternative scripts

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *kel- (to drive). Cognate with Latin celer (fast) whence English accelerate, and English hold.

Root

[edit]

कल् (kal)

  1. to impel, incite, urge
Derived terms
[edit]

References

[edit]
  • Monier Williams (1899) “कल्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0260/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 017
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “कल्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1956) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 179

Etymology 2

[edit]

Of uncertain origin.

Monier-Williams compares the root to Latin calculō (to calculate), while Mayrhofer makes no mention of this particular meaning and thus implicitly equates it with Etymology 1.

However, Turner separates this "sound, count" meaning from the above "impel, incite" meaning and derives the former from Dravidian; compare Tamil கல் (kal, to learn, study).

Root

[edit]

कल् (kal)

  1. to sound, count
Derived terms
[edit]

References

[edit]