कलयति

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”). Cognate with Latin celer (“fast”) whence English accelerate, and English hold.

कलयति • (kalayati) (root कल्, class 10, type P)

1. to take hold
2. to count
3. to consider, perceive, take notice of
4. to affix, attach
5. to make, do, accomplish, finish
6. to carry, bear
7. to impel, drive forward, incite

• Monier Williams (1899), “कलयति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0260.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 017