Talk:सस्ता

This term's (and its cognates') etymology is unclear, I want to know what you guys think. Dasa (R:hi:Dasa) suggests 🇨🇬, but Turner doesn't list any of the New Indo-Aryan terms in his entry for it. Meanwhile McGregor (R:hi:McGregor) doesn't list an etymology at all. I think the Sanskrit is unlikely because (1) the meaning is pretty different from "cheap", and (2) the medial "s" would have been lost (e.g. 🇨🇬). Should a 🇨🇬 be reconstructed? The Marathi is especially confusing since it looks like a Sanskrit borrowing but there is no 🇨🇬. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 17:53, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * This cannot be from . It however looks like a foreign word, particularly a Persian borrowing. If you consider an Indo Aryan origin then out of interest to you, 🇨🇬 means cheap and 🇨🇬 is applied to people who lose their value (in the eyes of others) due to over familiarity. -- माधवपंडित (talk) 02:42, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I've also always thought it was a Persian term. Gujarati lexicon lists सस्त, सस्ता as Marathi cognates alongside स्वस्त (which may be a hypercorrection). I can't find anything in Persian or even Pashto to connect it to. DerekWinters (talk) 04:35, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I can't find anything in Persian either. It has to be a borrowing then, but from which language? —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 13:32, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Maybe doublet of ? Persian سست seems to have many meanings, and the Georgian term derived from it is interesting too. Maybe it's from a related term even? DerekWinters (talk) 16:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Turner's Nepali dictionary lists the cognates of सस्तो as
 * [Ku. sasto, B. sastā, O. sastā, H. P. sastā, G. sastũ, M. sastā.]
 * The ones not mentioned yet on this page are 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The other DSAL dictionaries suggest 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 exist as well.
 * Besides 'cheap/inexpensive', 🇨🇬 also has the third definition of 🇨🇬 'sound, tranquil, composed'. DSAL Molesworth suggests this meaning is borrowed from the Sanskrit word with the थ changed to त while the 'cheap/inexpensive' meaning has the same origin as 🇨🇬 or borrowed from Hindi. It appears 🇨🇬 is the older (not Old Marathi though) or alternate form of the 'cheap/inexpensive' meaning before it was 'hypercorrected' to match the form of the Sanskrit borrowing as DerekWinters suggested with the assumption that 🇨🇬 is originally from 🇨🇬.
 * DSAL Platts may be considered unreliable but for out of curiosity for سستا it suggests
 * [S. स्रस्त+कः, root स्रंस् or स्वस्थ+कः]
 * Also, DSAL Fallon for سستا suggests
 * Tir. sast; Sant. & Mag. sahtā, adj. S. समर्घ Cheap; low-priced.
 * 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬 could be reconstructed if borrowing from 🇨🇬 is not conclusive. Kutchkutch (talk) 02:45, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the great finds! I think a nativization of the 🇨🇬 is possible; 🇨🇬, seem unlikely to me but I will mention them in the etymology. The hypercorrection in Marathi definitely points to something weird. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 02:48, 11 January 2018 (UTC)