अति

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अति (áti), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *áti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áti, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ə.t̪iː/, [ɐ.t̪iː]

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अति • (ati)

1. (literary, superlative) very, greatly

   अति उत्तम ― ati uttam ― very good

   अति महत्वपूर्ण ― ati mahatvapūrṇ ― very important

अति • (ati) f

1. excess, surplus

• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “अति”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House

अति

1. Devanagari script form of ati (“very”)

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *áti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áti, from Proto-Indo-European *éti (“over”). Cognate with Latin et (“and”), Ancient Greek ἔτι (éti, “yet”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (aⁱti), Old Persian 𐎠𐎫𐎹 (a-t-y /⁠atiy⁠/), Proto-Germanic *idi.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́.ti/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.t̪i/

अति • (áti)

1. (prefixed to verbs) over-
2. (prefixed to nouns) beyond
3. (prefixed to adjectives) excessively, exceedingly, very
4. (independently) at the top, over[1]

• Paisaci Prakrit:
  • Punjabi: ਅਤੇ (ate, “and”), ਅੱਤ (atta, “maximum, extreme, excess”)
• Dardic:
  • Khowar: دى (di, “also”)
  • Kashmiri: تِہ (tih, “and, also, too”), تہٕ (tụ)/तॖ (tụ)(tụ, "and, also, too")
• → Hindi: अति (ati) (learned)
• → Bengali: অতি (oti) (learned)
• → Konkani: अति (ati) (learned)
• → Marathi: अति (ati) (learned)
• → Kannada: ಅತಿ (ati)
• → Punjabi: ਅਤਿ (ati) (learned)
• → Tamil: அதி (ati)
• → Telugu: అతి- (ati-)