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Sanskrit
Sanskrit comes from Sanskrit सं॒स्कृ॒त ‘perfected’, and goes back to स्कृ ‘to do’.
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEस्कृskṛ‘to do’
- Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEसं॒स्कृ॒तsaṃskṛtá‘perfected’
- Englishearliest quotation 1945Sanskrit
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEस्कृskṛ‘to do’
- Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEसं॒स्कृ॒तsaṃskṛtá‘perfected’
- Englishearliest quotation 1945Sanskrit
Earliest quotation: 1945, Elizabeth Gidley Withycombe, Introduction: “Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all…”
The story
First use appears c. 1617 in the publications of Samuel Purchas.
Every English word from Sanskrit स्कृ
Today it means
noun A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Sanskrit स्कृ / Sanskrit