recessed portal giving shared sheltered access to the front doors of a grouping of row houses or walk-up apartments · grouping of row houses or walk-ups sharing the same access portal · portico
köken: From porta (“gate, entrance”) + -icus. The expected form would be first declension *portica, porticae or, second declension *porticus, porticī; compare manica and pedica. The ending might have been influenced by fourth declension domus and/or portus as well as by Ancient Greek στοά f (stoá).
any round or roundish mass or heap, ball, lump, piece (RV., TS., ŚBr., etc.) · a roundish lump of food, a bite (of food), morsel, mouthful · a ball of rice or flour offered to ancestors (GṛŚṛS., Mn., MBh., etc.)
çekim: çoğul पिण्डाः॑ · tamlayan पिण्ड॑स्य
köken: Due to the diverse phonetic variation in the word's relatives in modern Indo-Aryan, Turner considers the word to be borrowed from Dravidian; compare Tamil பிழி (piḻi, “to squeeze”), பிண்டம் (piṇṭam, “what is squeezed”), from an earlier Proto-Dravidian *piẓi-nt- (“to squeeze”).