Etymograph

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Hari

Hari comes from Sanskrit हरि ‘yellow or green’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰelh₃-‘green, yellow’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰólh₃-i-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*ȷ́ʰárHiš‘green, yellow’reconstructed
  4. Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*źʰárHiṣreconstructed
  5. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEहरिhari‘yellow or green’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2015Hari

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰelh₃-‘green, yellow’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰólh₃-i-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*ȷ́ʰárHiš‘green, yellow’reconstructed
  4. Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*źʰárHiṣreconstructed
  5. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEहरिhari‘yellow or green’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2015Hari

Earliest quotation: 2015, Courtney Rubin, Taking On the Food Industry, One Blog Post at a Time: “To protest the sandwich chain’s use of azodicarbonamide in…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- ‘green, yellow’

gold, fell, yellow, gall, cholera, chlorine, felon, gullible, yolk, glib, choline, gild, zloty, chlorella, 28 more

Today it means

name A name or epithet given commonly to Vishnu, but also to Indra and Yama.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- / Hari

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