हट्ट

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Etymology

Of uncertain origin.

Probably a borrowing from a non-Indo-Aryan language, though Mayrhofer is skeptical of the specific borrowing being from Middle Kannada ಹಟ್ಟ (haṭṭa, a (movable) market).[1][2] Alternative theories link the word to the root हृ (hṛ, to take).

Pronunciation

  • (Vedic) IPA(key): /ɦɐʈ.ʈɐ/, [ɦɐʈ̚.ʈɐ]
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɦɐʈ.ʈɐ/, [ˈɦɐʈ̚.ʈɐ]

Noun

हट्ट • (haṭṭa) stem, m

  1. (cf. अट्ट (aṭṭa)) a market, fair (Pañcat. Vet.)

Descendants

References

  1. Caldwell, R. (1875). A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages. United Kingdom: Trübner, p. 465
  2. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics: IJDL.. (1994). India: Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala, p. 72

Further reading

  • Monier Williams (1899) “हट्ट”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1287, column 1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 530
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 572
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “haṭṭa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 806
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