Where does “কিতা” come from?
কিতা (Bengali) comes from Arabic قطع, from Arabic ط, from Nabataean 𐢋, from Classical Syriac ܛ, from Aramaic ט, from Aramaic 𐡈, from Egyptian 𓄤.
কিতা (Bengali): piece, fragment, chunk
Ancestry of “কিতা”, step by step
কিতা traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Arabic قطع
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Arabic | قطع | to cut, to break; to stop, to cease; to cut off |
| 2 | Arabic | ط | ط |
| 3 | Nabataean | 𐢋 | — |
| 4 | Classical Syriac | ܛ | number nine |
| 5 | Aramaic | ט | — |
| 6 | Aramaic | 𐡈 | A letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, named teth, transliterated as Latin ṭ |
| 7 | Egyptian | 𓄤 | — |
via Bengali কি
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Bengali | কি | what?; Forms yes or no questions when placed in... |
| 2 | Pali | 𑀓 | Brahmi script form of ka |
| 3 | Sanskrit | कः | nominative masculine singular of किम् |
| 4 | Sanskrit | किम् | used as a particle of interrogation |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | kás | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | kás | who |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷós | who |