Where does “વાક્ય” come from?
વાક્ય (Gujarati) comes from Sanskrit वाक्य, from Sanskrit वच्, from Proto-Indo-European wekʷ- — to speak, to sound out.
વાક્ય (Gujarati): sentence
Ancestry of “વાક્ય”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Sanskrit | वाक्य | speech, saying, assertion, statement, command,... |
| 2 | Sanskrit | वच् | to speak, utter, say |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | wekʷ- | to speak, to sound out |