कूर्द्

Of unclear origin. Possibly related to गूर्द् (gūrd, “to play, leap”)^[1] and/or from Proto-Indo-European *kerd- (“to swing”), whence perhaps Ancient Greek κραδάω (kradáō, “to swing, brandish”), Old English hratian (“to rush, hasten”), German scherzen (“to joke, jest, frolic”),^[2] and Welsh cerdded (“to walk”).^[3] A borrowing from Dravidian has also been suggested by Turner and Kuiper, but is not preferred to the above etymology; compare Tamil குதி (kuti, “to jump”).^[4]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kuːɾd/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /kuːɾd̪/

कूर्द् • (kūrd)

1. to leap, jump
2. to play

• Monier Williams (1899) “कूर्द्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 300/2.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 21