दु

दु (du)

1. beginning, progress, order

• used with possessive prefix

• “दु”, in खालिङ - नेपाली - अङ्‍ग्रेजी शब्दकोश (Khaling - Nepali - English Dictionary), Nepal: SIL International, 2016.

From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w- (“to burn”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δαίω (daíō, “kindle”), and perhaps related to Latin duellum, bellum (“war”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /du/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d̪u/

दु • (du)

1. to be burnt, consumed with internal heat or sorrow
2. to burn, consume with fire
3. to cause heat, pain or sorrow

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• Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “दु”, 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
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