कोटि

Etymology
Of origin.

For the "curved end of a bow, tip" meanings, Burrow compares 🇨🇬. He also considered a borrowing from Dravidian in the past, but later rejects this.

The "large number" meaning is often considered to be of a separate origin from the other meanings, and is traditionally considered of (possibly ) origin; compare 🇨🇬 (in small-scale counting, 20 would be considered a large number). However, Mayrhofer later doubts this derivation, and considers the "large number" meaning as a semantic transfer from the "tip" meaning.

Noun

 * 1) the curved end of a bow or of claws, end or top of anything, edge or point (of a sword), horns or cusps (of the moon)
 * 2) the highest point, eminence, excellence, end, extremity
 * 3) ‘a point or side in an argument or disputation’, (if there are two) ‘alternative’
 * 4) the complement of an arc to 90 degrees
 * 5) the perpendicular side of a right-angled triangle
 * 6) Medicago esculenta
 * 7) the highest number in the older system of numbers; a krore, ten million (10,000,000), or 100 lakhs (1,00,00,000) in the South Asian numeral system

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