Etymograph

English

dhania

Dhania comes from Hindi धनिया ‘coriander, Coriandrum sativum’, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰaHnáH ‘seed, grain’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁-1‘to do’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰoHnéh₂2‘grain’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*dʰaHnáH2‘seed, grain’reconstructed
  4. Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*dʰaHnáH2reconstructed
  5. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEधानेयक2‘coriander’
  6. Hindic. 1500–presentधनिया3dhaniyā‘coriander, Coriandrum sativum’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2015dhania3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Indo-European *dʰoHnéh₂
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Hindi धनिया
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English dhania
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2015, Saving our city centres, one local market at a time: “All can find a stall selling something familiar –…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁-Wiktionary, Proto-Indo-European *dʰoHnéh₂‘to do’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰoHnéh₂Wiktionary, Hindi धनिया‘grain’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*dʰaHnáHWiktionary, Hindi धनिया‘seed, grain’reconstructed
  4. Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*dʰaHnáHWiktionary, Hindi धनियाreconstructed
  5. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEधानेयकWiktionary, Hindi धनिया‘coriander’
  6. Hindic. 1500–presentधनियाWiktionary, English dhaniadhaniyā‘coriander, Coriandrum sativum’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2015dhaniaWiktionary, English dhania. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2015, Saving our city centres, one local market at a time: “All can find a stall selling something familiar –…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’

do, fact, deal, hot, fair, defense, benefit, fashion, feature, mid, theme, fan, defence, custom, sufficient, treasury, treasure, ethnic, ethical, thesis, aesthetic, feast, synthetic, theology, doom, tick, defendant, deed, dis, atheist, ethic, auditorium, auditor, atheism, demi, deem, spade, thematic, ethos, forfeit, 128 more

Today it means

noun Coriander.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “dhania”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Indo-European *dʰoHnéh₂, Hindi धनिया. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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