कतर

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷoteros, from *kʷos (“which”) (whence also क (ká)). Cognates include English whether, Ancient Greek πότερος (póteros), Lithuanian katras (“katràs”) and Russian который (kotoryj).

Pronoun

कतर • (katará)

  1. who, which (of two)?; whether (of two)?

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0246

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