Re: [tied] Daridra, needy

dari-dra:-ti 'runs from place to place (like a beggar)' is simply an intensive reduplication of dra:- 'run, hasten' (PIE *drah2-, as e.g. in Greek ap-e-dra:n 'I ran away'). dari-dr-a- is a noun derived from that stem. Such intensive reduplication (cf. bari-bHar-ti 'carries about') is quite common in Vedic but rare in Classical Sanskrit.

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] Daridra, needy

daridra_, Intens. Pa_n. 6-4 , 114 Va_rtt. 2) roving , strolling TS. iii , 1 , 1 , 2; daridra, VS. xvi , 47 S'Br.i , 6 , 1 , 18 Ta_n.d.yaBr. ; poor , needy , deprived of (instr. Katha_s. lxxiii ; in comp. , lxiv Bhartr. iv , 11) , (m.) a beggar Mn. ix , 230 R. tarittiram = poverty, want, destitution (Old Tamil) Is any cognate attested in IE?

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