अति

Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अति (áti), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *áti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áti, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ə.t̪iː/, [ɐ.t̪iː]
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Adverb

अति • (ati)

  1. (literary, superlative) very, greatly
    अति उत्तम ― ati uttam ― very good
    अति महत्वपूर्ण ― ati mahatvapūrṇ ― very important

Noun

अति • (ati) f

  1. excess, surplus

Declension

References

  • Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “अति”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House

Pali

Alternative forms

Adverb

अति

  1. Devanagari script form of ati (“very”)

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *áti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áti, from Proto-Indo-European *éti (“over”). Cognate with Latin et (“and”), Ancient Greek ἔτι (éti, “yet”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (aiti), Old Persian 𐎠𐎫𐎹 (a-t-y /⁠atiy⁠/), Proto-Germanic *idi.

Pronunciation

Adverb

अति • (áti)

  1. (prefixed to verbs) over-
  2. (prefixed to nouns) beyond
  3. (prefixed to adjectives) excessively, exceedingly, very
  4. (independently) at the top, over[1]

Descendants

  • Paisaci Prakrit:
    • Punjabi: ਅਤੇ (ate, “and”), ਅੱਤ (atta, “maximum, extreme, excess”)
  • Dardic:
    • Khowar: دى (di, “also”)
    • Kashmiri: تِہ (tih, “and, also, too”), تہٕ (tụ)/तॖ (tụ)(tụ, "and, also, too")
  • → Hindi: अति (ati) (learned)
  • → Bengali: অতি (oti) (learned)
  • → Konkani: अति (ati) (learned)
  • → Marathi: अति (ati) (learned)
  • → Kannada: ಅತಿ (ati)
  • → Punjabi: ਅਤਿ (ati) (learned)
  • → Tamil: அதி (ati)
  • → Telugu: అతి- (ati-)

References

  1. Monier Williams (1899) “अति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 12, column 2.
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