रात्रि

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) night

Etymology
Attested from the Middle Vedic period onwards, the term arose as a dialectal variant of an older. The Rigveda only attests but the Vedic texts that came after the Rigveda attest both the variants. In Classical Sanskrit literature, only is attested and all the Middle Indo-Aryan reflexes are formally descended from this variant, suggesting that the older form  completely fell out of use by the end of the Vedic period.

Although not common, variations of a similar nature have also been observed in ~  and  ~. The presence of such alteration in other languages (see ) suggests that such variants with shortened vowels are not completely unetymological and may have existed as dialectal variants in Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European. For further etymology and cognates, see.

Noun

 * 1) night

Descendants

 * Dardic: