खन्

See also: ख़ून

Nepali

Pronunciation

Verb

खन् • (khan)

  1. inflection of खन्नु (khannu):
    1. stem
    2. low-respectful second-person singular imperative

Sanskrit

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kanH- (“to dig”), though the aspiration is unexplained: probably either spurious/onomatopoeic or due to contamination from the unrelated root of खा (khā́, “spring, source”).

Root

खन् • (khan)

  1. to dig, dig up, delve, turn up the soil, excavate, root up

Derived terms

References
  • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “khani”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 275–276
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*kanH1”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 232–233
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