कूर्द्

Sanskrit[edit]

Alternative scripts

Of unclear origin. Possibly related to गूर्द् (gūrd, “to play, leap”)^[1] and/or from Proto-Indo-European *kerd- (“to swing”), whence perhaps Ancient Greek κραδάω (kradáō, “to swing, brandish”), Old English hratian (“to rush, hasten”), German scherzen (“to joke, jest, frolic”),^[2] and Welsh cerdded (“to walk”).^[3] A borrowing from Dravidian has also been suggested by Turner and Kuiper, but is not preferred to the above etymology; compare Tamil குதி (kuti, “to jump”).^[4]

कूर्द् • (kūrd)

Monier Williams (1899) “कूर्द्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 300/2.
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 21

^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 118
^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1956) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 254-5
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 202-3
^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kūˊrdati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press