तञ्च्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (to pull together, coagulate, solidify, compact). Cognate with Persian تنجیدن (tanjidan, to squeeze, twist), Old Armenian թանձր (tʻanjr, thick, dense), English tight, Old Norse þéttr (close, thick), Old Irish técht (solidified), Lithuanian tánkus (thick, dense).

Pronunciation

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Root

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तञ्च् (tañc)

  1. to contract, coagulate

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “तञ्च्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 432/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 60
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 614-5
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 377-8