braṣṭa-

Khotanese

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *pṛs-, pṛšta-, Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-, pṛḱ-sḱ-. Cognate to Sanskrit praś-, pṛcchati, pṛṣta-.

Verb

braṣṭa-

  1. asked, past participle of puls-.
    • 1951, H. W. Bailey, Khotanese Buddhist Texts, Tailor's Foreign Press, 45·19:
      ttī-t-ī hā brraṣṭā sa
      ‘then she asked him’
    • 1956, H. W. Bailey, Khotanese Texts III, Cambridge at the University Press, 129·16:
      drūnā parīdą brrīṣṭi
      ‘they deign to ask the health’

References

  • Bailey, H. W. (1979), Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 313
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