swadeshi

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*deyḱ-“to point out”
2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*swé“(pronoun) self”
3. Sanskrit · derived fromस्वदेश
4. Hindi · borrowed fromस्वदेशी“nationalist, patriotic; policy of nationalist self-sufficiency, swadeshi; proponent of the swadeshi movement”
5. English todayswadeshi

PIE word *swé Borrowed from Hindi स्वदेशी (svadeśī, “nationalist, patriotic; policy of nationalist self-sufficiency, swadeshi; proponent of the swadeshi movement”), from स्वदेश (svadeś, “one’s own country”) + -ई (-ī, suffix forming adjectives, or forming nouns meaning a person who does an action indicated by the stem). स्वदेश is derived from Sanskrit स्वदेश (svadeśa), from स्व (sva, “his or her own”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“(pronoun) self”)) + देश (deśa, “country; point, place”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”)).

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