A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c5.90

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In this way we may account for the common M. word ठेवणे “to place,” as from Skr. स्थापनं. The universal word टेकना “to prop” is also thus referable to स्था; as is ठेलना “to shove,” used in all the languages, deducible from स्थल्. Many more examples will probably occur to the reader, of words the origin of which has hitherto been uncertain, but which, by the operation of this tendency, may be traced back to familiar Sanskrit roots.+