दुस्-
Sanskrit
prefix
Definitions
- a prefix to nouns and rarely to verbs or adverbs (Pāṇ. 2-1, 6 , 2, 18 Vārtt. 2 Pat. , iii, 3, 126, etc.) implying evil, bad, difficult, hard
- badly, hardly; slight, inferior, etc., often = or un- (un-).
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *duš- inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *duš- (bad, wrong) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (bad, difficult, ill, wrong).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dus-
Gloss
bad, difficult, ill, wrong
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
悪
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dystopia English
- dys- Latin
- dyslexia Latin
- dys- French
- дистрофия Russian
- -κολος Ancient Greek
- δυσ- Ancient Greek
- δύσκολος Ancient Greek
- *dus- Proto-Indo-European
- *dēwǝ- Proto-Indo-European
- dys- Norwegian Bokmål
- *tuz- Proto-Germanic
- dys- Norwegian Nynorsk
- दुष्यति Sanskrit
- do- Irish
- tor- Old Norse
- dis- Catalan, Valencian
- tor- Icelandic
- दुर्गंध Hindi
- دزد Persian
- دژ Persian
- do- Old Irish
- do- Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- do- Manx
- 𐍄𐌿𐌶- Gothic
- *dus- Proto-Celtic
- *duš- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *duš- Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *duš- Proto-Iranian
- *dušmánah Proto-Iranian