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==Translingual==

===Symbol===
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# [[square root]] of.
#: '''√4̅''' = <math>\sqrt{4}</math> = 2
# {{lb|mul|linguistics}} {{n-g|Used before text to indicate it is a [[root]].}}
#* {{quote-book|en|termlang=mul|passage=The consonant of the reduplicating syllable is in general the first consonant of the root: thus, पप्रछ् paprach from '''√'''प्रछ् prach; शिश्रि çiçri from '''√'''श्रि çri; बुबुध् bubudh from '''√'''बुध्.|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cSCBj-9jJj8C&pg=PA222|page=222|year=1889|author=W.D. Whitney|title=Sanskrit Grammar|publisher=Breitkopf and Hartel|oclc=500501158}}
#* {{quote-book|de|termlang=mul|passage='''Cratis''' = Reisig, Geflecht, Gitter, Schicht ist mit griech. κάρταλος = Korb, got. ''haúrds''. nhd. Hürde u. s. w. von indog. √''kerto'' = knüpfen, flechten abzuleiten ({{...}}), und hat sich auch mehrfach in den romanischen Sprachen erhalten, wie ital. ''grata'' = Gitter|t='''Cratis''' = brushwood, mesh, lattice, layer is along with Greek κάρταλος = basket, Gothic ''haúrds'', New High German Hürde, etc. from Indo-European '''√'''''kerto'' = to tie, braid ({{...}}), and has also been preserved several times in the Romance languages, like Italian ''grata'' = lattice|page=1682|pageurl=https://ia600303.us.archive.org/12/items/PWRE08/Pauly-Wissowa_IV2_1679.png|title=Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft|year=1901|chapter=Cratis|chapterurl=https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/RE:Cratis}}
#* {{quote-book|fr|termlang=mul|passage=Té̆rîtek ⵜⵔⵜⴾ ('''√''' ⵔⵜⴾ ertek « tomber verticalement ») ‖ F.|t=Té̆rîtek ⵜⵔⵜⴾ ('''√''' ⵔⵜⴾ ertek "fall vertically") ‖ F.|title=Dictionnaire abrégé touareg-français de noms propres|page=333|pageurl=https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Foucauld,_Dictionnaire_Touareg_Noms_Propres.djvu/353|author=C. de Foucauld|year=1940}}
#* {{quote-journal|it|termlang=mul|journal=Annali lateranensi pubblicazione del Pontificio museo missionario etnologico|year=1946|volume=3|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktgDjRq8nrcC&q=%22KWN+ora+per%22&pg=PA197|page=197|passage=Ma questa particolare accezione di ''kawn'' non ha alcun nesso speciale con l'India, perchè è della lingua araba usare '''√''' KWN ora per l'«essere» (come in كان اللّه) e ora per il «divenire», e il greco fa lo stesso con '''√''' γεν e il sanscrito con '''√''' bhū (''bhava'', mondo, كون; ''svabhâva'', essenza, كيان).|t=But this particular sense of ''kawn'' does not have anything special to do with India, because it is (characteristic) of Arabic to use '''√''' KWN sometimes for "being" (as in كان اللّه) and sometimes for "becoming", and Greek does the same with '''√''' γεν and Sanskrit with '''√''' bhū (''bhava'', world, كون; ''svabhâva'', essence, كيان).}}
#* {{quote-book|en|termlang=mul|author=A. Yadin; G. Zuckermann|pageurl=https://www.google.com/books?id=iL-GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87|chapter={{...}} Ideological Secularization of Hebrew Terms {{...}}|title=The Sociology of Language and Religion|editor=T. Omoniyi|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230304710|year=2010|page=87|passage=Consider Israeli מיקום mikúm 'locating', from מקמ '''√'''mqm 'locate', which derives from biblical Hebrew מקום [må‿qom] 'place', whose root is קומ '''√'''qwm 'stand'}}
#* {{quote-book|ru|termlang=mul|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQuVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA104|title=Новое в согдийской этимологии|author=Илья Якубович|publisher=Litres|isbn=9785457530232|year=2013|page=104|passage=Реконструированный корень '''√'''mā, разумеется, не являлся единственным выразителем значения 'расти' в праиндоевропейском.|t=The reconstructed root '''√'''mā, of course, was not the only expression of the meaning 'to grow' in Proto-Indo-European.}}
#* {{quote-book|de|termlang=mul|pageurl=https://www.google.com/books?id=iM5jEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA15|title=Literalität und Mehrsprachigkeit|editors=I.C. del Toro; E. Hack-Cengizalp|author=Utz Maas|chapter=Die Stärke einer Sprache {{...}}|isbn=9783763971367|year=2021|page=15|passage=Gebildet zu einer Wurzel '''√'''fqh, zu der insbesondere auch ein Verb ''faqaha'' „verstehen, begreifen“ gehört.|t=Formed from a root '''√'''fqh, which also includes a verb ''faqaha'' "to understand, comprehend".}}
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# An ''ad hoc'' symbol for the hypothetical Solar-system planet [[Vulcan]]<ref>Harry Ezekiel Wedeck, ''Dictionary of astrology'', vol. I, pag. XXII, Citadel Press, 1973.</ref>

====Usage notes====
This is also called the "[[radical]] sign".

===See also===
* {{l|mul|∛}} {{l|mul|∜}}

===References===
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