Where does “ശിഷ്ടം” come from?

ശിഷ്ടം (Malayalam) comes from Sanskrit शिष्ट, from Sanskrit -त, from Proto-Indo-Iranian -tás, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

ശിഷ്ടം (Malayalam): remainder; remnant; remaining; left

Definitions

  1. remainder; remnant; remaining; left

Ancestry of “ശിഷ്ടം”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sanskritशिष्टleft, remaining, escaped, residual; anything that...
2Sanskrit-त-ed
3Proto-Indo-Iranian-tásCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós →Every word from Sanskrit -त →Every word from Sanskrit शिष्ट →
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