हिल्लोलय

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Likely a sound-symbolic formation from a non-Indo-Aryan source. See also हिन्दोल (hindola, “swing, hammock”), लोल (lola, “shaking, swinging”), कल्लोल (kallola, “a wave, surge, billow”).

Pronunciation

Root

हिल्लोलय • (hillolaya)

  1. to swing or rock or roll about

Derived terms

  • हिल्लोलयति (hillolayati)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “हिल्लोलय”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1300/3.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 540-1
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