सस्ता

Etymology
hi. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and the 🇨🇬 (earlier ).

The preservation of the cluster -st- universally rules out Sanskrit inheritance; most Indo-Aryan languages would have assimilated that to -tt-. Given the widespread distribution of the term, it would have been an early borrowing or a borrowing from an influential language.

Several theories have been put forward:
 * 1) An assimilation of, making it a doublet of.
 * 2) .  This is unlikely due to the regular simplification of consonant clusters in Middle Indo-Aryan; compare 🇨🇬, which would theoretically yield 🇨🇬 or.
 * 3) The likely wrong suggestion of inheritance from . This already yielded 🇨🇬, which is not very common now. The only redeeming quality of this suggestion is that offers a direct contrast to, from . Compare ,.

Adjective

 * 1) cheap, inexpensive