प्साति

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Sanskrit[edit]

Alternative scripts[edit]

Alternative scripts

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *bzʰā́ti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰes- (“to rub, grind”), see also Ancient Greek ψάω (psáō, “to rub”).[1]

While this is historically assigned to the root प्सा (psā), this is a reanalysis given the opaque structure. भस् (bhas) is from the same Proto-Indo-European etymon. Compare the development of the root म्ना (mnā).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

प्साति • (psā́ti) third-singular present indicative (root प्सा, class 2, type P)[2]

  1. to chew
  2. to eat; to devour

References[edit]

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Besen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 78: “wg. *besmōn-”
  2. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “प्सा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 715.
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