क्रीड्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

  • क्रीळ् (krīḷ) Rigvedic

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *kriẓḍ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *križd-, of uncertain further origin.[1] Mayrhofer traces the root back to a Proto-Indo-European *krisd- (to move about, frolic), and tentatively compares Old Norse hrista (to shake), but this is semantically tenuous.[2][3][1]

Pronunciation

Root

क्रीड् • (krīḍ)

  1. to play
  2. to have fun
  3. to joke, jest

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “क्रीड्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0321/2.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “क्रीड्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 025
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “क्रीड्”, 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
  1. Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 281-2
  2. Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 413
  3. Mayrhofer, Manfred (1956) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 279
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