चयते

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáyatay, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷéy-e-ti, from *kʷey- (“to pay”).[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ) (whence English pain, punish and penalty), Lithuanian kaina (“price”) Old Church Slavonic цѣна (cěna, “price”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁‎ (kaēnā), Old Armenian քէն (kʿēn, “hate”) and Persian ‎ (kin, “hatred”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ́.jɐ.t̪ɐj/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɐ.jɐ.t̪eː/

Verb

चयते • (cáyate) (root चि, class 1)[2]

to punish
to take revenge, vengeance on
to hate, detest

References

Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*kʷei̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 379
Monier Williams (1899), “चयते”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 394.

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