Where does “सहस्राब्द” come from?
सहस्राब्द (Sanskrit) comes from Sanskrit सहस्र, from Proto-Indo-Iranian saȷ́ʰásram, from Proto-Indo-European sm̥-ǵʰéslom, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰéslom, from Proto-Indo-European sm̥-, from Proto-Indo-European sem- — together, one.
सहस्राब्द (Sanskrit): a thousand years, millennium
Definitions
- a thousand years, millennium
Ancestry of “सहस्राब्द”, step by step
सहस्राब्द traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Sanskrit सहस्र
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanskrit | सहस्र | a thousand; a thousand cows or gifts; any very... |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | saȷ́ʰásram | one thousand |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | sm̥-ǵʰéslom | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰéslom | thousand |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | sm̥- | one; with, together |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sem- | together, one |