दु

दु (du)

1. beginning, progress, order

• used with possessive prefix

• “दु”, in खालिङ - नेपाली - अङ्‍ग्रेजी शब्दकोश (Khaling - Nepali - English Dictionary), Nepal: SIL International, 2016.

From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w- (“to burn”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δαίω (daíō, “kindle”), and perhaps related to Latin duellum, bellum (“war”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /du/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d̪u/

दु • (du)

1. to be burnt, consumed with internal heat or sorrow
2. to burn, consume with fire
3. to cause heat, pain or sorrow

• Monier Williams (1899) “दु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0482.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 075

• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दु”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016

• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 123
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 104
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0179”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0179