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Where does “बर्हिस्” come from?

बर्हिस् (Sanskrit) comes from Proto-Indo-Iranian bʰarȷ́ʰíš, from Proto-Indo-European bʰelǵʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-.

बर्हिस् (Sanskrit): "that which is plucked up", sacrificial grass, a...

Definitions

  1. "that which is plucked up", sacrificial grass, a...

Ancestry of “बर्हिस्”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Iranianbʰarȷ́ʰíšpillow; bed or layer of grass
2Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰelǵʰ-to swell
3Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-—
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