Where does “दर्दनाक” come from?
दर्दनाक (Hindi) comes from Hindi -नाक, from Sanskrit -अक, from Proto-Indo-Iranian -kas, from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos — -y, -ic.
दर्दनाक (Hindi): painful, tragic
Ancestry of “दर्दनाक”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hindi | -नाक | — |
| 2 | Sanskrit | -अक | -er |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | -kas | Creates deadjectival and desubstantival... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |