कड

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
  • ᬓᬟ (Balinese script)
  • কড় (Assamese script)
  • কড় (Bengali script)
  • 𑰎𑰚 (Bhaiksuki script)
  • 𑀓𑀟 (Brahmi script)
  • 𑌕𑌡 (Grantha script)
  • કડ (Gujarati script)
  • ਕਡ (Gurmukhi script)
  • ꦏꦝ (Javanese script)
  • កឌ (Khmer script)
  • ಕಡ (Kannada script)
  • ກຑ (Lao script)
  • കഡ (Malayalam script)
  • 𑘎𑘚 (Modi script)
  • ᢉᠠᢎᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
  • ᡬᠠᡷᠠ (Manchu script)
  • ကဍ (Burmese script)
  • 𑦮𑦺 (Nandinagari script)
  • 𑐎𑐜 (Newa script)
  • କଡ (Odia script)
  • ꢒꢞ (Saurashtra script)
  • 𑆑𑆝 (Sharada script)
  • 𑖎𑖚 (Siddham script)
  • කඩ (Sinhalese script)
  • కడ (Telugu script)
  • กฑ (Thai script)
  • ཀ་ཌ (Tibetan script)
  • 𑒏𑒛 (Tirhuta script)

Etymology

Of uncertain origin.

The retroflex d has to be assumed as the primary consonant; thus derivations from l-forms are invalid. Attempts to connect कड to कल (kala, “indistinct; mumbling”) are similarly unconvincing.

Burrow invokes Fortunatov's law and derives कड from an intermediate *कल्द (kalda), and connects this to Old Norse haltr (“lame”).

Alternatively, has been considered as a borrowing from Munda.

Pronunciation

Adjective

कड • (kaḍa) root form

  1. dumb, mute
  2. ignorant, stupid

References
  1. Monier Williams (1899), “कड”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 244/3.
  2. Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 290-291
  3. Mayrhofer, Manfred (1956–1980) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 144-145
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