चयते

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáyatay, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷéy-e-ti, from *kʷey- (“to pay”).^[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ) (whence English pain, punish and penalty), Lithuanian kaina (“price”) Old Church Slavonic цѣна (cěna, “price”) Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁‎ (kaēnā), Old Armenian քէն (kʿēn, “hate”) and Persian (kin, “hatred”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ́.jɐ.t̪ɐj/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɐ.jɐ.t̪eː/

Verb

चयते • (cáyate) (root चि, class 1)^[2]

to punish
to take revenge, vengeance on
to hate, detest

References

↑ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*kʷei̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 379
↑ 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 394

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