સસ્તું

Etymology
gu. 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. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬  /, the  🇨🇬 (earlier ), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Several theories have been put forward:
 * 1) An assimilation of, making it a.
 * 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