गै
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- गा (gā)
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- গৈ (Assamese script)
- ᬕᬿ (Balinese script)
- গৈ (Bengali script)
- 𑰐𑰹 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀕𑁃 (Brahmi script)
- ဂဲ (Burmese script)
- ગૈ (Gujarati script)
- ਗੈ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌗𑍈 (Grantha script)
- ꦒꦻ (Javanese script)
- 𑂏𑂶 (Kaithi script)
- ಗೈ (Kannada script)
- គៃ (Khmer script)
- ໄຄ (Lao script)
- ഗൈ (Malayalam script)
- ᡤᠠᡳ (Manchu script)
- 𑘐𑘺 (Modi script)
- ᠺᠧᠧ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦰𑧛 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐐𑐿 (Newa script)
- ଗୈ (Odia script)
- ꢔꣀ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆓𑆽 (Sharada script)
- 𑖐𑖹 (Siddham script)
- ගෛ (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩞𑩗 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚌𑚳 (Takri script)
- கை³ (Tamil script)
- గై (Telugu script)
- ไค (Thai script)
- གཻ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒑𑒻 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨍𑨇 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *geH- (“to sing, cry”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁 (gāθā, “form of strophe, metre, namely the collections of Zarathustra's songs, the Gathas”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /ɡɑːj/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /ɡɑj/
Root
गै • (gai)
Derived terms
Primary verbal forms
Secondary forms
- गी॒यते॑ (gīyáte, passive)
- अगा॑यि (ágāyi, passive aorist)
- गा॒पय॑ति (gāpáyati, causative)
- अजी॑गपत् (ájīgapat, causative aorist)
- जिगासति (jigāsati, desiderative)
- जेगीयते (jegīyate, intensive)
Non-finite forms
Derived nominal forms
Prefixed root forms
- अनुगै (anugai)
- अपगै (apagai)
- अभिगै (abhigai)
- आगै (āgai)
- उद्गै (udgai)
- उपगै (upagai)
- निगै (nigai)
- परिगै (parigai)
- प्रगै (pragai)
- विगै (vigai)
- संगै (saṃgai)
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root गै (0 c, 7 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root गै (6 c, 0 e)
References
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “GAI”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 496
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “GĀ2 singen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][2] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 482
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899), “गै”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 363, column 2.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), “गै”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 35
- Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “गै”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
- Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 355
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 356