Where does “कठिनता” come from?

कठिनता (Sanskrit) comes from Sanskrit कठिन, from Sanskrit कठ् — to live in distress.

कठिनता (Sanskrit): hardness, firmness, harshness, severity

Definitions

  1. hardness, firmness, harshness, severity

Ancestry of “कठिनता”, step by step

कठिनता traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Sanskrit कठिन

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sanskritकठिनdifficult; stiff, hard, firm; harsh, cruel,...
2Sanskritकठ्to live in distress

via Sanskrit ता

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sanskritताgeneralizing suffix
2Sanskritइका—
Every word from Sanskrit कठ् →Every word from Sanskrit कठिन →