छगल

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From an unattested *छग (chága) (compare छाग (chā́ga), which is attested in the Rigveda; also attested later as Classical Sanskrit छग (chaga)) + -ल (-la, extension), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sčágas (compare Ossetian цӕҕӕ (billy-goat) and Wakhi čəɣ̌ (kid)), either from a potential Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱégos (goat, sheep) (compare Proto-Germanic *skēpą),[1] or a borrowing from a substrate language.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

छगल • (chagalá) stem, m

  1. a goat
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:अज

Declension

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Derived terms

  • छगली (chagalī)
  • छगलिका (chagalikā)
  • छगलक (chagalaka)

Descendants

References

  1. Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 140: “*(s)k̂egos”
  2. Lubotsky, Alexander (1999), “The Indo-Iranian substratum”, in Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations, Helsinki, page 3
  • छगल॑” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 176, column 1.
  • Monier Williams (1899), Chagalá”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 404, column 1.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), chagala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 271
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