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Shashti

Shashti comes from Sanskrit षष्ठ ‘sixth day in a lunar fortnight’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs ‘six’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*swéḱs‘six’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*suḱs-th₂ó-s‘sixth’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*š(w)uštʰásreconstructed
  4. Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*ṣwuṣṭʰásreconstructed
  5. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEषष्ठṣaṣṭhīas षष्ठी‘sixth day in a lunar fortnight’
  6. EnglishtodayShashti

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*swéḱs‘six’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*suḱs-th₂ó-s‘sixth’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*š(w)uštʰásreconstructed
  4. Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*ṣwuṣṭʰásreconstructed
  5. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEषष्ठṣaṣṭhīas षष्ठी‘sixth day in a lunar fortnight’
  6. EnglishtodayShashti

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs ‘six’

six, hexane, 16 more

Today it means

name The sixth day (tithi) of the lunar fortnight (paksha) in the Hindu calendar.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs / Shashti

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