क्रीणाति

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *krináHti, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷrinéh₂ti, from *kʷreyh₂-. Cognate with Manichaean Middle Persian xryn (“to buy”), Old Irish crenaid, Old Church Slavonic крьнути (krĭnuti), Ancient Greek ἐπριάμην (epriámēn).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

क्रीणाति • (krīṇāti) (root क्री, class 9, type parasmaipada)[2]

  1. to buy, purchase
  • क्रीणीते (krīṇīte, 9 Ā)

References

  1. ↑ Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*xraiH”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 446
  2. ↑ 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 321
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