प्साति

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

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

Verb

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

  1. to chew
  2. to eat; to devour

References

  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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