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Accordingly, usemiția- primarily must have meant 'loud snorting made as a gesture of disdain, insult or disapproval', u- deriving from sk. ud -. Kattaliya
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Guj. kātlī (written kātali) - a piece, consisting of the portion between the two joints in the stalk of sugar-cane, juvār, bājrā etc.
khaḍa-pūlaya- Guj. khad no pūlo - 'a bundle of grass'.
(C DIAL 3769; 8349)
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Gaccha :
Original meaning 'a tree'. Like a tree and its branches (śākhā), the Jaina gacchas have their śäkhās (C DIAL. 3949)
*gakṣa.
gaḍdi: Sk. gantrī is a sanskritization like vapta for bappa.
gālaṇaga Guj. galnu (written galanu) 'cloth filter to filter water, strainer'. Guj. galvu (written gālavu) 'to filter'. (C DIAL. 4143; 4074)
jhāḍa: Previously Pk. jhäda 'bush, thicket' has been connected with some Munda words. (Turner, 5362). It is more probably of Indo-Aryan origin. From Sk. jaṭā - 'root' (C DIAL - 5086), we can have a derivative jāța - 'a mass of twisted roots', which changed to Pk. jhada (for the change word-initial Sk. j-> jh- is common in several NIA languages.)
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thiggaliya - Guj. thīg-du 'a patch especially put on cloth to mend rent.' (C DIAL - 6096)
dullalia: In GK 892 and duvviaddha in GK 56, both rather mean 'highly fond of, 'addict of, addicted to'. In that changed meaning, both words commonly occur in Prakrit literature.
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dhikkā: Guj. ḍhiko; dhiko 'hard blow with the fist' - (with initial retroflex, not dental.)
dhijjāiya Besides the literal sense, the artificial etymological connection with Sk. dvijatika- is also implied.
pheṭṭā: 'Stroke'. We previously have noted its occurrence from Agastyasimha's curni on the Dasakāliya-sutta (Ed. Muni Punyavijaya, Prakrit Text Society Series, no. 17) in the following passage (p. 105, 1. 28); elao simgena pheṭṭãe vā āhanejjā ‘or a ram may strike with his horns or deal
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