ঝি

Etymology
, from earlier, from , from , from , from an earlier , from.

The Old Indo-Aryan word morphed unusually with metathesis of aspiration (compare, from Old Indo-Aryan ), deletion of the first vowel and lengthening of the second vowel in many Middle and New Indo-Aryan descendants, with additional palatalization (dh [dʰ] to jh [dźʰ]) in eastern (Magadhan), northwestern (Dardic), southwestern (Old Gujarati) and southern (Old Sinhalese) ones – indicating influence from a possibly pre-Vedic Indo-Aryan language (with loss of the first vowel and sporadic retention of the resulting cluster [dźʰ]; any way, causing the second vowel to be stressed and lengthened) or a non-Indo-European substrate.

Noun

 * 1) daughter
 * 2) maidservant
 * 1) maidservant