Where does “क्षि” come from?

क्षि (Sanskrit) comes from Proto-Indo-European teḱ- — to sire, beget.

क्षि (Sanskrit): to destroy, corrupt, ruin, make an end

Definitions

  1. to destroy, corrupt, ruin, make an end

Ancestry of “क्षि”, step by step

क्षि traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European teḱ-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanteḱ-to sire, beget

via Proto-Indo-European tḱey-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeantḱey-to cultivate; to settle; to live

Words derived from “क्षि

Every word from Proto-Indo-European teḱ-