"नहि नहि रक्षति डु कृञ् करणे"
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I had this panchent for etymology since long. Going through :
आसन्ने सम्प्राप्ते मरणे नहि नहि रक्षति डु कृञ् करणे ||
भज गोविन्दम् भज गोविन्दम् भज गोविन्दम् मूढमते ||
"भज गोविन्दम् / bhaja givindam"
I tried to decipher this aphorism in the संस्कृत व्याकरण / Sanskrit grammar, and found this सूत्र / aphorism in the "पाणिनी / Panini" अष्टाध्यायी 3/3/88.
I felt the English word "do" might be but the cognate of this संस्कृत / Sanskrit कृ / kri verb-root.
तत्रापश्यत्स्थितान् पार्थः पितॄनथ पिता महान् ||
आचार्यान् मातुलान्भ्रातॄन्पुत्रान्पौत्रान्सखींस्तथा||२६।||
There is yet another letter दीर्घ 'ऋ' as is used in the above verse from Gita, I am unable to print here that forms the verb root '~कृ' - कीर्यते and give us words such as : किरण, विकिरण, कीर्ति ...
Then I searched for the similar words like ado, adapt, adopt and finally adept. I think, I could conveniently relate all these words to their संस्कृत / Sanskrit origin as follows :
Ado : as in "much ado about nothing".
अव धू and अ वधू as in अवधूत (निष्णात निःस्नात नि स्नात)
Do : As in "How do you do?",
Adapt : To adjust (अधि युञ्जित) to the situation and circumstances,
Adept : expert (अधि आप्त),
Adopt : could be derived in two ways --
अधि आप्त, आदि आप्त Apt, आप्त - opt option,
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