𑀧𑀺𑀯𑀇

• 𑀧𑀺𑀅𑀇 (piaï), 𑀧𑀺𑀩𑀇 (pibaï)

From Sanskrit पिबति (píbati), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *píbati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *píbati, from Proto-Indo-European *píbeti, late variant of *píph₃eti, reduplication of *peh₃- (“to drink”). Cognate with Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀯𑀤𑀺 (pivadi), Magadhi Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀯𑀤𑀺 (pivadi), Pali pivati.

𑀧𑀺𑀯𑀇 (pivaï) (Devanagari पिवइ, Kannada ಪಿವಇ) (transitive) (Maharastri)

1. to drink
   • c. 200 CE – 600 CE, Hāla, Gāhā Sattasaī 161:

     𑀉𑀤𑁆𑀥𑀘𑁆𑀙𑁄 𑀧𑀺𑀅𑀇 𑀚𑀮𑀁 𑀚𑀳-𑀚𑀳 𑀯𑀺𑀭𑀮𑀁𑀕𑀼𑀮𑀻 𑀘𑀺𑀭𑀁 𑀧𑀳𑀺𑀑
     𑀧𑀸𑀯𑀸𑀮𑀺𑀆-𑀯𑀺 𑀢𑀳-𑀢𑀳 𑀥𑀸𑀭𑀁 𑀢𑀡𑀼𑀅𑀁-𑀧𑀺 𑀢𑀡𑀼𑀏𑀇

     uddhaccho piaï jalaṃ jaha-jaha viralaṃgulī ciraṃ pahio
     pāvāliā-vi taha-taha dhāraṃ taṇuaṃ-pi taṇuei

     • 2009 translation by Peter Khoroche and Herman Tieken

       For some time the traveller has been sipping water from his cupped hand, keeping his fingers wide apart
       all the while looking up towards the woman at the well who in turn has reduced the already thin stream to a mere trickle.

• Konkani: pivce, piyevce

  Devanagari script: पिव्चे, पियेव्चे

  Kannada script: ಪಿವ್ಚೆ, ಪಿಯೆವ್ಚೆ

  Latin script: pivche, piyevche

• Old Marathi:

  Modi script: 𑘢𑘲𑘜𑘹 (pīṇe), 𑘢𑘹𑘜𑘹 (peṇe)

  Devanagari script: पिणे (piṇe), पेणे (peṇe)

  • Marathi: पिणे (piṇe)

• Sir George Abraham Grierson (1924) “The Prakrit Dhātv-ādēśas: According to the Western and the Eastern Schools of Prakrit Grammarians.”, in Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal‎, volume VIII, number 2, Calcutta, page 145.
• Pischel, Richard, Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages, Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass, page 346.
• Woolner, Alfred Cooper, An Introduction to Prakrit‎, Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1917, page 207.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “píbati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press