तञ्च्

From Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to pull together, coagulate, solidify, compact”). Cognate with Persian تنجیدن‎ (tanjidan, “to squeeze, twist”), Old Armenian թանձր (tʿanjr, “thick, dense”), English tight, Old Norse þéttr (“close, thick”), Old Irish técht (“solidified”), Lithuanian tánkus (“thick, dense”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /tɐɲt͡ɕ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /t̪ɐɲt͡ɕ/

तञ्च् • (tañc)

1. to contract, coagulate

• Monier Williams (1899), “तञ्च्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 432/1.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 60
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 614-5
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 377-8