रदति
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *rádati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *rádati, from Proto-Indo-European *réh₁d-e-ti, from *reh₁d-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬭𐬁𐬜𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (rāδaiti, “to pave”), Latin rādō (“I scrape”), Old English ræt (whence English rat).
The short vowel in Sanskrit is a problem. Lubotsky (1981, 1989) has proposed that the loss of the laryngeal in Proto-Indo-Iranian could be attributed to glottalic theory. Cheung suggests the long vowel in Avestan is a derivation from a nominal form, since it is a hapax legomenon.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /ɾɐ́.dɐ.ti/
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɾɐ.d̪ɐ.t̪i/
Verb
रदति • (rádati) (root रद्, class 1, type P)[2]
- to scratch, scrape; gnaw, bite
- to cut a path, pave
- to lead a river into a channel
- to convey, bestow
References
- Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*Hrad”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 186
- Monier Williams (1899), “रदति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 866.