tejo

teja

masc nom sg of teja (adj); masc nom sg of tejas (noun); masc acc sg of tejas (noun)

teja (adj): keen; sharp; piercing
tejas (masc): flame; fire; heat
tejas (masc): radiance; glory; splendour; power
tejas (masc): poison; lit. heat
tejo (masc): fire; heat

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teja/tejas — root · fire; radiance
From PIE *tek- 'to flow, melt', cognate with Sanskrit tejas and English 'thaw'. The concrete image of flowing heat or blazing radiance underlies both literal fire and metaphorical power or glory.

Etymology. From Indo-European *tek- 'to flow, melt', related to Sanskrit tejas (तेजस्) 'fire, splendour, power', and to English 'thaw'. The root sense is thermal fluidity and radiant energy; in the canon, tejas represents one of the four great elements (mahābhūta) and figuratively the power or splendour of a being, especially the Buddha.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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