करूळतिन्
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- करूडतिन् (karūḍatin)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *karuẓHḍatī́, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *k⁽ʰ⁾aružHdánt- ~ *k⁽ʰ⁾arwaHdánt- (“having damaged teeth”), from *k⁽ʰ⁾arúš ~ *k⁽ʰ⁾arwás (“mutilated, damaged, maimed”)[1][2] + *Hdánts (“tooth”). Cognate with Sogdian ʾkrw-δntʾkʾ (“with damaged teeth”). Also compare खर्व (kharva, “mutilated, crippled”) and Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀 (kauruua, “mutilated”).
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /kɐ́.ɾuː.ɭ̆ɐ.tin/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /kɐ.ɾuː.ɭ̆ɐ.t̪in̪/
Adjective
करूळतिन् • (kárūḷatin) stem
- having damaged teeth, gap-toothed (applied as an epithet to Pushan, who is said to have broken teeth or no teeth)
- c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 4.30.24:
- वा॒मंवा॑मं त आदुरे दे॒वो द॑दात्वर्य॒मा ।
वा॒मं पू॒षा वा॒मं भगो॑ वा॒मं दे॒वः करू॑ळती ॥- vāmáṃvāmaṃ ta ādure devó dadātvaryamā́.
vāmáṃ pūṣā́ vāmáṃ bhágo vāmáṃ deváḥ kárūḷatī. - O Watchful One, may Aryaman the god give thee all goodly things.
May Pūṣan, Bhaga, and the god with damaged teeth give all things fair.
- vāmáṃvāmaṃ ta ādure devó dadātvaryamā́.
- वा॒मंवा॑मं त आदुरे दे॒वो द॑दात्वर्य॒मा ।
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “करूळतिन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 255.
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 313
- ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “kári.datin-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University