Where does “bhakti” come from?
Bhakti comes from Sanskrit भक्ति, a noun formed from the Sanskrit suffix -ति.
bhakti (English): devotion to God
Ancestry of “bhakti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Sanskrit | भक्ति | distribution, partition, separation; division,... |
| 2 | Sanskrit | -ति | -ness |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |