English
pada
Pada comes from Sanskrit पद ‘step, pace, stride’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ped-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ped-‘to walk, to step’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ped-ómreconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*padámreconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)same formreconstructed
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEपदpada‘step, pace, stride’
- Englishearliest quotation 1997pada
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ped-‘to walk, to step’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ped-ómreconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*padámreconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)same formreconstructed
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEपदpada‘step, pace, stride’
- Englishearliest quotation 1997pada
Earliest quotation: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold: “There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems.…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ped- ‘to walk, to step’
feet, foot, pilot, pie, expedition, pioneer, pedestrian, fetch, podium, impeachment, pew, pedigree, pedal, impede, pawn, pug, expedite, impediment, pes, baht, ped, centipede, fet, pedicure, petiole, peon, pedometer, puy, fetter, pedicel, pedicle, poy, tripos, biped, quadruped, 50 more
Today it means
noun The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ped- / pada