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The Etymology of OP Vardanam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Robert A. Hall Jr.
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Language , Volume 12 , Issue 4-Part1: October-December , December 1936, pp. 297 - 299
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Copyright © 1936 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Bartholomae, AIrWb. 1425; Uhlenbeck, Etym. Wb. 293; Walde-P. 1.290.

2 Bartholomae, BB 8.218, IF 19. Beiheft 223; Foy, KZ 34.241 ff., KZ 35.24; Geiger, Civ. of E. Iran 2.3 f.; Geldner, BB 25.523, Ved. Stud. 1.139–54, 2.18 f., ZDMG52.733 f.; Meringer, IF 17.154; Oldenberg, GGA 1890410 ff.

3 JAOS 48.219 ff.

4 Words for ‘town’ have arisen chiefly from such sources as ‘fortress’ (the group Skt. p r, púram, puris, Lith. pilìs, Grk. pólis; Welsh dinas: Gallic -dūnum, OIr. dūn; cf. also Hung, város: vár 'castle'), 'enclosed place' or ‘that which encloses’ (the Slavic group *gord7#x016D;, usually regarded as borrowed from Gmc.: Goth. gards ‘house < enclosed place’ etc.; NE town: NHG Zaun, ON tūn, etc.), ‘place’ (NHG Stadt: OHG stat etc.; Pol. miasto: ChSl. město etc.), ‘country estate’ (Fr. ville < Lat. villa), or ‘citizenship, citizenry’ (OFr. cité, It. città, Sp. ciudad < Lat. civitātem); but none from the idea of ‘growing’ or ‘flourishing’, which seems altogether too sophisticated and poetical and also too much of an ex post facto notion. For the relation of ChSl. město, etc., to an IE *meit- ‘fat, nourishment’ see Walde-P. 2.247.

I am indebted to Prof. C. D. Buck for criticism and for permission to use for the above note his unpublished Dictionary of Selected IE Synonyms.

5 Which may be an error for Puṇḍra-vardhanam. Pauṇḍra-vi-vardhanam (PW 5.887) may also be an error for Pauṇḍra-vardhanam.