Dear Sh. Joshi
You may be aware that you can look up the Sabdakalpadrumah online. It gives the etymology of most listed words.
http://archive.org/search.php?query=sabdakalpadrumah
has all the five volumes.
Thanks, Nityanand
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Nityanand Misra
<nmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
As per Apte's Kosh, अथर्वन् = अथ + ऋ + वनिप्
As per Sabdakalpadruma, अथर्वन् = अथ + अर्व्व् + वनिप् = अथ लोकमङ्गलाय अर्व्व्यते प्रस्तूयते यत् अथ + अर्व्व् + कर्मणि वनिप् शकन्ध्वादित्वात्पररूपम्
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Nityānanda Miśra
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Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India
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