Etymograph

English

prasad

Prasad comes from Hindi प्रसाद ‘a type of food that is served as a religious…’, from Sanskrit प्रसाद ‘clearness, brightness, pellucidness, purity’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEसद्‘to sit down’
  3. Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEप्रसद्prasad‘to settle down, to become clear and bright’
  4. Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEप्रसाद‘clearness, brightness, pellucidness, purity’
  5. Hindic. 1500–presentप्रसादprasād‘a type of food that is served as a religious offering’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1997prasad

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEसद्‘to sit down’
  3. Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEप्रसद्prasad‘to settle down, to become clear and bright’
  4. Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEप्रसाद‘clearness, brightness, pellucidness, purity’
  5. Hindic. 1500–presentप्रसादprasād‘a type of food that is served as a religious offering’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1997prasad

Earliest quotation: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold: “I gave her the prasad from Eklingji to gain…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

set, president, size, sell, sit, sitting, seat, method, session, chair, resident, settle, nest, possess, siege, niche, assess, exodus, reside, subsidy, sedan, residue, residual, sediment, nye, saddle, insidious, sedentary, dissident, beset, cathode, soot, sedative, setter, obsess, anode, sedate, chaise, sessile, presidio, 96 more

Today it means

noun Food used as a religious offering.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sed- / prasad

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