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Where does “दुष्यति” come from?

दुष्यति (Sanskrit) comes from Proto-Indo-European dus-, from Proto-Indo-European dēwǝ- — to fail, be behind, be lacking.

दुष्यति (Sanskrit): to become bad or corrupted, to be defiled or...

Definitions

  1. to become bad or corrupted, to be defiled or...

Ancestry of “दुष्यति”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeandus-bad
2Proto-Indo-Europeandēwǝ-to fail, be behind, be lacking
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