Etymograph

English

samaj

Samaj comes from Sanskrit समाज ‘society, assembly, conclave’, from अज् ‘to drive, propel, throw, cast’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-‘to drive’reconstructed
  2. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEअज्‘to drive, propel, throw, cast’
  3. Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEसमाजsamāja‘society, assembly, conclave’
  4. Englishtodaysamaj

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-‘to drive’reconstructed
  2. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEअज्‘to drive, propel, throw, cast’
  3. Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEसमाजsamāja‘society, assembly, conclave’
  4. Englishtodaysamaj

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- ‘to drive’

act, action, active, agency, activity, actual, agent, suggest, strategy, actor, register, agenda, essay, acre, gesture, activate, digest, congestion, agony, squat, agile, ambiguous, agility, antagonist, agrarian, agitation, ambiguity, belligerent, axiom, progesterone, gestation, ingestion, assay, antagonism, agonist, ingest, radium, actuator, cogent, agitate, 151 more

Today it means

noun A society, community or congregation, especially of the Brahmo Samaj.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- / samaj

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